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alp227

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Sat Jun 9, 2012, 02:48 PM Jun 2012

North Korea: No plan for nuclear test 'at present'

Source: BBC

North Korea says it has no plans to conduct a third nuclear test "at present", but has hit out at what it says is provocation from South Korea.

Seoul was trying to "rattle the nerves of the DPRK in a bid to cause it to conduct a nuclear test" a foreign ministry spokesman said.

The remarks were carried by Pyongyang's official news agency, KCNA. They come weeks after satellite images suggested a "major upgrade" under way at North Korea's rocket launch site.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18380421

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North Korea: No plan for nuclear test 'at present' (Original Post) alp227 Jun 2012 OP
In other words, "we still don't know how to do it." longship Jun 2012 #1

longship

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1. In other words, "we still don't know how to do it."
Sat Jun 9, 2012, 06:44 PM
Jun 2012

Thank goodness some things are still secrets. For instance, how to construct an initiator, how to make a near perfectly symmetric compression wave, etc.

Without those, you have no A-bomb, just a dirty stick of dynamite.

Thank goodness.

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