Russia claims to have confirmed a nuclear test in North Korea with 100% certainty. Not in the article, but according to Fox News, senior Russian military sources have claimed the explosion was far greater than first thought, possibly as strong as 15 kilotons. The Hiroshima bomb was 12.5.
Perhaps the Fox report will be clarified, but it was stated rather clearly just after 6 AM.
A top Russian military officer today confirmed that the device tested by North Korea was a nuclear weapon, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
Russian military monitoring systems “detected the test of a nuclear weapon in North Korea,” the ITAR-Tass news agency quoted Lt. Gen. Vladimir Verkhovtsev as saying.
“It is 100 per cent (certain) that it was an underground nuclear explosion,” the agency quoted Verkhovtsev, the head of a Defence Ministry department, as saying.
Why can't our president pronounce 'nuclear'? It boggles the mind......
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, October 09, 2006 at 10:39 AM