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To: CYBERKEN who wrote (12454)	10/9/2006 11:20:00 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Respond to of 14758

so, is gw going to seek sanctions for the little pencil erarser blowing up some c4, lol? is clinton responsible for nk's possession of dynamite, lol? "GERTZ: U.S. doubts Korean test was nuclear; Readings fall short of atomic explosion... MORE... U.S. intelligence agencies say, based on preliminary indications, that North Korea did not produce its first nuclear blast yesterday, WASHINGTON TIMES star reporter Bill Gertz is set to report in Tuesday editions. U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that seismic readings show that the conventional high explosives used to create a chain reaction in a plutonium-based device went off, but that the blast's readings were shy of a typical nuclear detonation. 'There was a seismic event that registered about 4 on the Richter scale, but it still isn't clear if it was a nuclear test. You can get that kind of seismic reading from high explosives.' The underground explosion, which Pyongyang dubbed a historic nuclear test, is thought to have been the equivalent of several hundred tons of TNT, far short of the several thousand tons of TNT, or kilotons, that are signs of a nuclear blast, the official said. Developing...