The initial report indicated the yield was about the equivalent of 550 tons of TNT. Considering the ICBMs that were aimed at us for three plus decades came in at 200 millions tons TNT equivalent, each, the North Korean test nuke is small and the equivalent of a 16 aircraft B-52 strike on the same spot using conventional bombs.
Still deadly and lethal and probable evidence that Kim Jung Il has some level of nuke capability and increased ability to extort money from the neighborhood. We?ll see if everyone rolls over and pony?s up the extortion and placation money again, or if a real line is drawn in the sand this time, or no.
North Korea has little capability to sustain their population or infrastructure needs so this cycle of crisis, extortion and placation goes into a new phase now and the size of the money demands will increase proportionally, I figure.
Short of grabbing up South Korea and bleeding them white, Kim has few options but to increase the scope of the extortion scam, or admit what a calamitous failure they have going in North Korea and plead their case. Opening up and getting in the real world is not likely while Kim holds the forces of the internal North Korean terror infrastructure.
My opinion, but that nutter Kim is smart enough to know that if he sells a nuke and some population gets toasted n? poofed, something really, really bad is going to happen to his personal ?paradise? and he?ll slither out of his extensive tunnel and bunker system and see that considerable landscape reorganization has taken place.
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