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[kyburg]

I've heard all about the Korean nuclear test. One story, only one - refers to outside verification by Richter scale. But not by who.

Folks, I lived too many years with Soviet rhetoric to believe anything without outside verification. You remember those days, right? When we heard "yeah we did THIS and we did THAT and we DID DID DID" and you couldn't believe it and when something really DID happen (Chernobyl), it was found out by radiation readings outside the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries a day or so afterward.

"Underground, no leakage" - suuuure. Something like that had to do something readable by someone nearby, oh say - South Korea?

Anyone gotten anything from that source to confirm?

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[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Japan had seismograph readouts that showed a blip at the correct time, and there'd been reports of pits and things being dug in the general area.. something was exploded, its assumed to be nuclear, whether or not its something powerful enough to be a threat to other nations still seems unclear.

I'm a bit better informed on this than usual as I happend to have Channel 4 News on this evening which gives in-depth coverage of such things with lots of data, expert reports and unbiased editorial (well, reasonably unbiased), better than the BBC. Not sure if there's any way you could watch the full programme, there are video clips here but how much you get, I don't know..