Lookout, yes, Joe's did, but there was more to TW's post than that cheap shot.
Bruce, yes to this:
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The North Koreans are more interested in food than insurgency. Most of them would probably head south at the first opportunity.
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But that still would be a huge flood of refugees and all the chaos that would create.
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And no, they don't have "The Bomb". They managed to set off one crude explosion of questionably nuclear material.
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Basing my position on what I recall from the Japanese and western media, it probably was nuclear. Yes, it was crude. That is small consolation to me. I am presently downwind from the Korean peninsula, I would prefer the absence of filthy, contamination-scattering crude nuclear blasts in the general area, thanks.
OK, I just googled and Wikied. Radioactive isotopes indicate there was a nuclear blast. Yield estimates range from 0.55 to 12 kilotons. Probably about 1 or so. This means it was probably a fizzle - kind of worked but not properly.
It was still a nuclear blast. Fizzles are likely to be filthy. I'd rather not have them about, thanks.