MrApples

Oct. 9, 2006 - After years of brinkmanship, North Korea on Monday apparently tested a nuclear device deep underground, establishing itself as the world's eighth declared nuclear power. Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency reported that a successful test was conducted at 10:36 a.m. local time. The test "was carried out 100 percent with our own wisdom and technology," the report said. "The test will contribute to defending the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the neighboring regions."

The move, which Pyongyang had begun warning was imminent on Oct. 3, ends years of intensive diplomacy aimed at preventing the isolated Stalinist state from developing a nuclear capability. It struck a blow to Chinese leader Hu Jintao, who just hours before the detonation hosted a breakthrough summit meeting with Japan's new Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, which ended with a joint call for Pyongyang to refrain from testing a weapon and rejoin six-party talks. The test poses new dilemmas for U.S. president George W. Bush, who following the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks declared the North to be part of an "axis of evil" that also included Iraq and Iran. And it radically shifts the diplomatic ground for Japan, Korea's former colonial occupier and the lynchpin U.S. ally in East Asia.

The destabilizing effect of Pyongyang's move is potentially grave. South Korea's Yonhap news agency says the test occurred in Hwadae County, a rural area facing eastward toward Japan that also is the location from which North Korea tested seven ballistic missiles (one of them capable of reaching U.S. territory) on July 4. South Korea's Geological Resources Research Institute detected an earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale in the area around 10:30, a seismic event suggesting a yield of less than 10?roughly half the power of the atom bombs the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. North Korea is believed to have enough weapons-grade plutonium for as many as 10 such weapons.

Read the rest of the story here - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15191391/site/newsweek/
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Figured this might be important to post since it could be the end of the world :-\

Ogre

end of the world or end of north korea. thats for the other powers to decide.

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Titan

According to the mayan calendar, the world will end December 12 2012. Some people beleive in this deal of the mayan calender because if its accuracy to forsee past events. Of my other knowledge i know that when the calendar we use today was created, the scholor forgot to add in the 6 years that Julius Ceasar ruled as Salazar Ceasar. If when the mayan calendar was translated, those extra 6 years were not added, the world could end December 12 2006. The events that the calendar forsaw were not dated, with the exception of the "End of the World".
According to the Mayan calendar, the world would cease life because the sun would stop funtioning. This can also be translated to that the sun would not be visable. If a nuclear war did infact begin, the "End of the World" could be correct in the fact that the nuclear exhaust could cover the veiw of the sun, therefore creating a new iceage, which we would not be around to live through.

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InDIgoHaze

Crazy North Koreans, they really scare the crap out of me. Maybe the world will end, hard to tell. I hope it doesn't I'm still a virgin.