North Korea defied world powers by carring out an underground test of a nuclear bomb that is said to be comparable to those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The incident drew condemnation from Washington to Beijing.
Early this morning N. Korea tested yet another nuclear type weapon along with three short range missles. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a seismic event was registered in northeastern N. Korea at 9:54 a.m. which it initially identified as a 4.7-magnitude earthquake.
Pyongyang is believed to have enough weaponized plutonium for at least a half-dozen atomic bombs. However, experts say scientists have not yet mastered the miniaturization needed to mount a nuclear device onto a long-range missile.
Though desperately poor, North Korea increasingly has turned inward. The threat of N. Korea selling their plutonium to other counries such as Pakistan or Iran is also a possiblity to fund more testing from N. Korea.
Is this event something we should be more concerned about in regards to National Security or on an International level? Or rather by causing so much excitement over the test are we giving N. Korea an edge in International Policy such as trade?
Though desperately poor, North Korea increasingly has turned inward. The threat of N. Korea selling their plutonium to other counries such as Pakistan or Iran is also a possiblity to fund more testing from N. Korea.
Pakistan is a vital ally to the United States but the US is concerned about regional and global terrorism; Afghan stability; domestic political stability, democratization; nuclear weapons proliferation and security human rights protection, and economic development.
