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N. Korea

Many experts have been studying the recent explosion in North Korea and have been trying to figure the bombs magnitude. A lot of studies have found that the actual magnitude of the explosion was considerably less than what the North Korean government had said it would be. There are multiple theories to why this is so.
Some believe that the nuclear bomb may have been built incorrectly causing a less powerful explosion. They support this theory with claims that building a nuclear bomb is a highly complex feat and that North Korean scientists may have easily made a mistake due to there inexperience and isolation.
Another theory is that North Korea purposely used a smaller bomb in order to preserve their limited supply of plutonium. One thing that makes me wonder about this theory is that North Korea’s government doesn’t seem like one to lie about the magnitude of there nuclear bomb and set off a less powerful one. I think that this makes them look less strong and less capable. Thus I doubt that it was on purpose.
Still another theory is that the bomb was actually the size that they claimed it to be but the seismic waves were absorbed by the cave that it was detonated in. Some say that if the cave was the right size and made of the right rocks that it could reduce the waves enough to make the explosion appear smaller.
I believe that while the magnitude of the explosion is important the knowledge that North Korea deliberately ignored the requests of the many of the worlds countries is a more pressing issue. I think that the fact that they went ahead with testing bomb after being told not to shows that they neither fear nor care about many of the world’s superpowers. This action will likely cause major repercussions throughout the region.

Dud or Deception?

posted by Anonymous @ 10/10/2006 04:01:00 PM