In article ,
"Stephen D. Poe" writes:
On 3 Aug 2003 @ 18:58:42, Parallax wrote:

What if NK said they had some sort of nuke Doomsday Bomb capable of
contaminating a large part of Asia and it was hidden and in NK and
they demand money. Kim Jong Ilk is just nutso enough to do something
like this.

Then we take our top people (especially President Merkin Muffley) and
put them away safely deep in mine shafts and try and avoid having a mine
shaft gap while Major Kong flies deeper into NK... no wait... wrong
movie... :-)

Don't bet on it.

Of course, it would take a couple of things to happen before that is
possible. The DPRK would need to start breeding a _lot_ more fuel for
reprocessing, (Which isn't an inste (re)process. The announcement by
the DPRK that they have sufficient fissionables comes at about the
right time for them to have reporocess what hey had on hand last
spring, when they announced that they were beginning to reprocess.

They'd have to get a pile of Cobalt-Thorium G. (Not available without
a prescription)

They'd also have to break their internal OMerta and actually tell
someone. To quote the Doctor: sfx: German Photographer WeeGee's
Accent
"Of course, the entire purpose of the device is lost if you keep it a
SECRET! Why didn't you tell anybody."

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster