Do You Feel Safe?

On September 12th, a South Korean news agency reported a blast in North Korea that generated a mushroom cloud up to 4 km (2.5 miles) in diameter. South Korean and U.S. officials immediately insist it wasn't a nuclear blast, without actually knowing what it was.

The next day, North Korea said they had blown up a mountain.

Today a South Korean minister explained: "There is no information to support an explosion in the area where there were indications of an explosion.'

When a New York Times journalist asked Bush about North Korea's nuclear program recently, he just opened his palms and shrugged. I can only speculate that the blast was a demonstration of nuclear capability by Kim Jong Il, and that Bush and the South Koreans have agreed to hush it up for political purposes.