Was Moon behind timing of NK nuke test to sway vote on next UN chief

[AnnieBW]

Okay, Wayne Madsen isn't exactly the most credible of sources, but this one doesn't set off my bullshit detector quite like most of his stuff. Take it with a grain of salt.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1296.shtml

Was Moon behind timing of N. Korea nuke test to sway vote on next UN chief?
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Oct 10, 2006, 00:26

(WMR) -- WMR's intelligence sources with links to North Korea report that some media sources are hyping the kilo-tonnage of North Korea's underground nuclear weapons test. Although some outlets are reporting that the bomb tested by North Korea was 5 to 15 kilotons, in fact, it was between 1.5 and 2.4 kilotons, considered a surprisingly low yield by Western scientists. By comparison, the bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were 22 kilotons.

The test was conducted in an underground tunnel at Kilju in northeast North Korea, near the Chinese frontier.

Although observers were surprised that North Korea conducted their test before the November 7 U.S. election, handing a national security plum to the Bush administration, others point to the test coming on the eve of the UN Security Council vote on the selection of the replacement for Kofi Annan as Secretary General. The South Korean Foreign Minister, Ban Ki-moon, a "non-denominational Korean Christian," is believed to have links to the Unification Church of GOP and Bush supporter Sun Myung Moon.

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[magellan]

1. Heh. I suspected this as soon as I heard his name was moon

My husband pointed out it's actually Ki-moon, but there it is: "believed to have links to the Unification Church of GOP and Bush supporter Sun Myung Moon."

But I'd disagree with the observation that the test handed a "national security plum" to BushCo. It's made their policy with NK look bad, very bad.