Is Anyone concerned about this?

[burton2019]

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea announced for the first time Thursday it has nuclear weapons, and it rejected moves to restart disarmament talks anytime soon, saying the bombs are protection against an increasingly hostile United States.

The communist state's statement dramatically raised the stakes in the 2-year-old nuclear confrontation and posed a grave challenge to President Bush, who started his second term with a vow to end North Korea's nuclear program through six-nation talks.

"We ... have manufactured nukes for self-defense to cope with the Bush administration's evermore undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the (North),"? the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency. The news agency used the colloquial term "nukes"? in its English-language account.

The claim could not be independently verified. North Korea expelled the last U.N. nuclear monitors in late 2002. It is not known to have tested an atomic bomb, although international officials have long suspected it has one or two nuclear weapons.

The CIA has estimated that with a highly enriched uranium weapons program and the use of sophisticated high-speed centrifuges, North Korea could be making more. Some analysts and observers have put the estimate at six to eight.

[burton2019]

I posted this to get everyones opinion on the possibility of a nuclear war. I know it may not happen but the possibility is very lareg.

No not a bit concerned. I put my faith in Bush, Enron, and Haliburton.

[retiredteach]

My son spent a year in Korea, 11 miles from the DMZ. He hated Korea. There was a lot of concern then about the situation. That was about 4 years ago. Worked at Camp Casey, and lived at Camp Mobile about a mile apart. He received several commendations while there. He repaired Power Generators.