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  On 1/6/2016 at 4:45 PM, drinkTHEkoolaid said:

Any idea or guess on the potential yield of this test bomb?

 

Current estimates are 6kt...which is either "not a successful test," or the North Koreans have managed some seventy years of technological advancement in about six years.

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  On 1/6/2016 at 10:13 PM, DC Tom said:

 

Current estimates are 6kt...which is either "not a successful test," or the North Koreans have managed some seventy years of technological advancement in about six years.

 

...or they had help?

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  On 1/7/2016 at 2:27 AM, Deranged Rhino said:

 

...or they had help?

 

From who? No country who would help them has that capability, unless you want to posit that the Russians or Chinese are being two-faced about it.

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  On 1/7/2016 at 3:11 AM, DC Tom said:

 

From who? No country who would help them has that capability, unless you want to posit that the Russians or Chinese are being two-faced about it.

 

No idea. Just saying it's another possibility for how they could make that kind of jump in tech so quickly.

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  On 1/7/2016 at 3:23 AM, Deranged Rhino said:

 

No idea. Just saying it's another possibility for how they could make that kind of jump in tech so quickly.

 

Occam's shaver. It's a fizzle.

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  On 1/7/2016 at 3:11 AM, DC Tom said:

 

From who? No country who would help them has that capability, unless you want to posit that the Russians or Chinese are being two-faced about it.

I can't imagine any scenario in which this is a strong strategic ploy for Putin.

 

Chinese relations with Pyongyang have become strained recently over the domestic "disappearance" of North Korea's abasador to China, whom China apparently had a strong functional relationship with.

 

It isn't China either.

 

I lean strong toward "fizzle" as well.

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