This is the best of the headlines, I think.

Boom goes London, boom Paree...

Chinchillazilla: This is the best of the headlines, I think.

Meh.
I hear it with a thick southern accent and it just creeps me out.

Grabs some popcorn

/Korean War Part Deux: Nuclear Boogaloo
//This time, more nuclear-y

I'm not a player I just nuke alot.

China, please tell your little biatch to knock it off already.

I anticipate a calm rational thread.

North Korea's powerful politburo vowed to continue firing "powerful long-range rockets," but a statement by state media Tuesday made no mention of a nuclear test.

No mention (or historic evidence) of aiming.

Call me when their rockets stop crashing into the beach they're launched from.

Repeat from 1993.

Juche goes the dynamite?

well played submitter.

Knowing them, it was probably just a crapton of conventional explosives.

LessO2: 4.9 magnitude -- too small to cause damage, too big for a nuclear test.

Nothing to see here, move along.

CNN seems to think it was a bomb

reposting from the other thread 'cause i'm lazy:

I think it's just great that while the US and Israel have been riding Iran's ass about nuclear reactor technology....the craziest motherf*cker on the gotdamn planet has managed to build and successfully detonate 3 nuclear devices.  But hey, at least we got Israel's back on this one, so there's that.

LessO2: 4.9 magnitude -- too small to cause damage, too big for a nuclear test.

Nothing to see here, move along.

From the linked yahoo comments:

Well here is all the proof we need. We will sit on our behinds and have another Pear Harbor, This time it will be in LA instead of Hawaii. Therefore, we need to take them out before they take us out. I would sleep better mush better if we did not have Obama on watch. He isn't going to do nothing. Lets posion the rice and then we would knock out there military and there leaders because, there are the ones get the food before the people.

The news flash thread will read like a Hitchens-Sullivan debate compared to that.

Felt it here in Seattle...

bomb them now not later

Honest Bender: Knowing them, it was probably just a crapton of conventional explosives.

Kim Jong Un is fat.

BuckTurgidson: [25.media.tumblr.com image 476x340]

Is that WTC tourist guy on the cover of Big Uns?

Obviously the time for a full-on invasion is NOW.

Let's get this party started.

/the US military industrial complex is hungry
//where's a republican war monger when you need them

BSABSVR: LessO2: 4.9 magnitude -- too small to cause damage, too big for a nuclear test.

Nothing to see here, move along.

From the linked yahoo comments:

Well here is all the proof we need. We will sit on our behinds and have another Pear Harbor, This time it will be in LA instead of Hawaii. Therefore, we need to take them out before they take us out. I would sleep better mush better if we did not have Obama on watch. He isn't going to do nothing. Lets posion the rice and then we would knock out there military and there leaders because, there are the ones get the food before the people.

The news flash thread will read like a Hitchens-Sullivan debate compared to that.

Do I dare go to Freeperville?

AFTAC  will find out.  They have their monitoring stations everywhere.

/Dunno why only one letter is blue. Just when you get used to something...

jake_lex: omnibus_necanda_sunt: North Korea's powerful National Defense Commission said Jan. 23 that the United States was its prime target for a nuclear test and long-range rocket launches.

Good luck, fatty.

I can't imagine that even Kim Jong Fatty is stupid enough to actually attack the US with nuclear weapons.  That would give the US carte blanche to turn North Korea into the proverbial glass parking lot.  And at that point, even China would be "Ah, fark it, it's not worth it."

no, but he could really rock the world by slamming the NIKKEI stock exchange during the middle of business.  that'd create a LOT of instability, and ripple around the world causing fear and chaos beyond belief.  even if he just got close enough to hit a third of Japan with an EMP burst, that'd rock the world on it's heels, causing billions in damage greater than any war could do.

or imagine if NKorea were to hit Taiwan with a nuke.  even if they missed, who do you think would get the retributive strike?

In before all the pussies whine about being afraid of North Korea.

I presume that this was an underground test like the others?

doglover: 4.9 isn't that big.

For something man made it is.

WTF Indeed: In before all the pussies whine about being afraid of North Korea.

AFAIK, they cannot hit mainland US, but can still cause great destruction to So Korea, Japan, India, etc