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Poll: Will any country try to limit NK ability to build nuclear weapons?

Yes 20% (37 votes)
No 25% (46 votes)
They will try diplomatically 29% (55 votes)
They wouldn't dare 25% (46 votes)
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Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by lightwind(m): 4:29pm On Apr 15
zoghys:
The TACO man won't ever think of attacking north Korea but will run quick to attack Venezuela and Iran because he sees them as a less formidable opposition. O ya naw, go attack NK if you get the mind.
Venezuela, Iran and Nigeria have what can benefit USA ' Resources. America always goes for where their interest dey.

Nothing dey North Korea and besides North Korea is not a terrorist or drug cartel country.

Check for differences yourself.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by dappydozzy(m): 4:29pm On Apr 15
jaxxy:
Trump had no dey, let NATO who is waiting for Iran to be like north Korea b4 they act go and check him. undecided

There was a time North Korea didn't have such weapons under Obama and they kept saying Kim will soon have nuclear weapons Obama kept saying he can't untill he had it. Nothing was done to stop him.
North Korea already had nuclear warheads before the Obama administration. A nuclear warhead is different from a missile. North Korea tests its ballistic missiles periodically to determine its range.
North Korea normally uses its nuclear programme to negotiate economic aid because of sanctions imposed by the West on Pyongyang during Kim Jong il reign.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by UnknownQueen(f): 4:39pm On Apr 15
chimex38:
You have no idea the effect of its contaminations through air, immune systems, gene distortions, mutations over years and even centuries..

The effect of the 1st atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is still going on at present; not just on the location or radius of the blasr but on the genes of adults, children and their offspring till this day...

Wherever anyone or infrastructure, plant or animals from those locations go, the effect spreads.
Wind blows and hurricanes and river flow spreading it further to other regions previously unaffected.

The radioactive decay is almost infinite and self sustaining.
I asked GPT of what you said is totally correct, here's what it told me....👇👇👇although im sure you got your answers online too and wondering why the claims are contradictory.......

There are some truths mixed with exaggerations in that statement. Let’s go through it clearly.
What is true
Nuclear weapons release radiation that can harm the body, damage the immune system, and increase cancer risk.
Exposure can also cause genetic damage, which in some cases may affect future children.
After the bombings of Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many survivors suffered long-term health effects, especially higher cancer rates.
What is partly true but overstated
Saying the effects are “still going on” today is only partly correct.
Some survivors (and their children) have been studied for decades.
There is some increased risk, but it is not widespread, uncontrollable genetic damage across generations as often claimed.
What is not accurate or exaggerated
“The effect spreads wherever people, animals, or plants go”
→ Radiation does not spread like a contagious disease. Once radioactive material is gone or decayed, it doesn’t keep spreading through people moving around.
“Wind, rivers, hurricanes keep spreading it indefinitely”
→ Fallout can spread short-term after a blast, but it does not keep circulating forever at dangerous levels.
“Radioactive decay is almost infinite and self-sustaining”
→ This is incorrect.
Radioactive materials decay over time and become less dangerous.
Some last longer than others, but none are “infinite” or self-sustaining in that way.
The real picture
Nuclear weapons are extremely destructive, both immediately and in the long term, but:
The most dangerous radiation effects happen early, shortly after the explosion.
Long-term risks exist, especially cancer, but they are not endlessly spreading or growing across the world.
Places like Hiroshima and Nagasaki today are inhabited and functioning cities, not permanently radioactive wastelands.
Simple summary
The statement is trying to highlight how dangerous nuclear weapons are, which is valid, but it overstates how radiation spreads and lasts. It mixes real science with fear-driven exaggeration.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by Axis313(m): 4:42pm On Apr 15
Urgent1Million:
Oya ooo!
DJ Trump party don land oo!!
North Korea must not be allowed to have more nuclear weapons!
Abi na only Iran?
North Korea have no oil.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by Axis313(m): 4:51pm On Apr 15
franvincoop:
The atomic bomb does not even have to be used, you just have to have it.
The ownership of the atomic bomb guarantees sovereignty through:

1st strike capability
2nd strike capability
MAD - Mutual Assured Destruction

For example, no one would have dared declare a no fly zone in Libya had Gaddafi not dismantled their nuclear program years before, same with Syria.

As for North Korea, there is a possibility that North Korean can sell nuclear warheads to Iran leading to a global proliferation of nuclear weapons.
While the IAEA will be inspecting weapons programs and nuclear facilities, North Korea can even sell a nuclear warhead to a non State actor like IS or Boko Haram.
The same proliferation by AQ Khan which was the foundation of nuclear programs and facilities in Pakistan, Libya, Syria, South Africa and North Korea.


North Korean with their JUCHE ideology do not have the same concept of life and death as you know it.
If they feel threatened, they don't care to nuke Washington DC and let the world end.
The question is, do those in Washington DC believe in any other paradise apart from what they are living now? I guess not, so they'll leave Kim be.
That bolded really got me cracking up.
Abeg,how are they forming all these acronyms?
Mutually
Assured
Destruction.
Which means make everybody just exhibit their madness at the same time.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by nnamdi640: 5:07pm On Apr 15
North Korea go soon collect like Iran. A country where citizens are subjected to worship one particular man shouldn't be encouraged to manufacture nuclear weapons, one day, same country will use it to threaten the world to surrender to them
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by Lordhanzo: 5:14pm On Apr 15
lightwind:
But can North Korea be able to send nuclear weapon from their own country directly to any USA city ?
north Korea has icbms. If Hypersonics or icbms is loaded with a nuclear war head it can very much touch America. However there will be response. America has New York. Palm beaches. No one wants nukes around these. This Iran war has shown that America does not have the ability to intercept missiles moving faster than Mach 5.
If either goes to war it will be messy but assured victory for America. Thing is the Chinese will never allow it get to that point. They will enter the war.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by TOPMAN4LIFE: 5:20pm On Apr 15
amaridigital:
Israel doesn't have to talk. Israel should go and invade North Korea.
The guy said he had it and he has been begging Trump and netan-yahoo for the past one month to come and attack him. Why are they afraid? Washington will get an unexpected supernova visitor this evening that will take away 20 million people with it.
The big mouth of white house and house boy in Jerusalem, Are they afraid of kim? Don't they want a nuclear free world again?
Please Trump go and attack kim. Is it only Jesus and the Pope you can abuse? Please try and abuse kim we want to check something?
Stop this your rant,
It's because Iran has been sponsoring terror groups in the middle East, that is why Israel and the USA don't want them to have nuclear weapons,
If north Korea is showing the same thing, it will be curtailed,
If nuclear weapons are bombed in the country that hosts or owns them, the nuclear weapons will also affect them,
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by Auki: 5:36pm On Apr 15
Thank God. North Korea is not Islam country otherwise US and Western powers would have bomb them to stone age on behalf of Isreal.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by Egodollars(f): 5:45pm On Apr 15
They would make noise and leave Israel and USA to fight , they should sit on their ass and be yapping!! The war would not get to Africa on time when it starts. Our problems in Africa are self induced for self destruction.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by ufotunang: 6:04pm On Apr 15
Urgent1Million:
Oya ooo!
DJ Trump party don land oo!!
North Korea must not be allowed to have more nuclear weapons!
Abi na only Iran?
..if Iran is allowed to produce nuclear weapons..Iran will also give the nuclear weapons to hamas, Hezbollah, houtis terrorists to destroy many countries.. just imagine nuclear weapons with terrorists
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by JuanDeDios: 6:20pm On Apr 15
UnknownQueen:
You guys talk as if when a nuclear weapon is released in a country, everything gets wiped off immediately....
It could end civilisation and force survivors to live in a preindustrial world.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by UnknownQueen(f): 7:34pm On Apr 15
JuanDeDios:
It could end civilisation and force survivors to live in a preindustrial world.
You mean it takes one back to stone age.....?
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by Mattswaggz(op): 7:35pm On Apr 15
DLuciano:
This is not fun, its a dangerous development to the entire world, if nothing is done urgently, it may spell doom to the whole universe
The very first time human discovered and made nuclear weapons already meant doom regardless of whose hand it is or who started it or for whatever reason......it still remains a matter of time because it seems like we humans are the key to our own destruction.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by Mattswaggz(op): 7:36pm On Apr 15
Skullminers1:
You people have started again with your childish talk. This is exactly you nairaland extremists pushed Iran to their doom
Who are the "you Nairaland extremists" you're talking about here though?. undecided .
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by JuanDeDios: 7:45pm On Apr 15
UnknownQueen:
You mean it takes one back to stone age.....?
Yes. It'd likely take anything from 100-300 years to get where we are now and have computers again.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by UnknownQueen(f): 8:42pm On Apr 15
JuanDeDios:
Yes. It'd likely take anything from 100-300 years to get where we are now and have computers again.
I think that will be nicer cos almost all of us agreed that the world would have been a better and nicer place without civilisation cheesy
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by zoghys: 9:05pm On Apr 15
lightwind:
Venezuela, Iran and Nigeria have what can benefit USA ' Resources. America always goes for where their interest dey.

Nothing dey North Korea and besides North Korea is not a terrorist or drug cartel country.

Check for differences yourself.
Dey play, NK is far more worse than the three. A country that will gladly nuke USA without no reason, and you still think they're not threat to global peace and stability.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by FoolishBoy419: 9:17pm On Apr 15
UnknownQueen:
You guys talk as if when a nuclear weapon is released in a country, everything gets wiped off immediately....
Fun fact: nuclear fallout is more dangerous than the blast itself. A nuclear weapon may not kill up to 5 million people at once but the radiation can wipe out an entire country
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by UnknownQueen(f): 9:21pm On Apr 15
FoolishBoy419:
Fun fact: nuclear fallout is more dangerous than the blast itself. A nuclear weapon may not kill up to 5 million people at once but the radiation can wipe out an entire country
Has a nuclear weapon ever been used on humanity?
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by stuffs2002: 10:01pm On Apr 15
saddler:
North Korea is closer to China. As far as China is comfortable with them having it, no wahala.

America has really tried and can not do all.
North Korea can strike more than half of United States's
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by lightwind(m): 11:02pm On Apr 15
zoghys:
Dey play, NK is far more worse than the three. A country that will gladly nuke USA without no reason, and you still think they're not threat to global peace and stability.
They are not....

They should try nuking Japan and South Korea first let's check something.

You know the two are US allies
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by chimex38: 1:28am On Apr 16
UnknownQueen:
I asked GPT of what you said is totally correct, here's what it told me....👇👇👇although im sure you got your answers online too and wondering why the claims are contradictory.......

There are some truths mixed with exaggerations in that statement. Let’s go through it clearly.
What is true
Nuclear weapons release radiation that can harm the body, damage the immune system, and increase cancer risk.
Exposure can also cause genetic damage, which in some cases may affect future children.
After the bombings of Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many survivors suffered long-term health effects, especially higher cancer rates.
What is partly true but overstated
Saying the effects are “still going on” today is only partly correct.
Some survivors (and their children) have been studied for decades.
There is some increased risk, but it is not widespread, uncontrollable genetic damage across generations as often claimed.
What is not accurate or exaggerated
“The effect spreads wherever people, animals, or plants go”
→ Radiation does not spread like a contagious disease. Once radioactive material is gone or decayed, it doesn’t keep spreading through people moving around.
“Wind, rivers, hurricanes keep spreading it indefinitely”
→ Fallout can spread short-term after a blast, but it does not keep circulating forever at dangerous levels.
“Radioactive decay is almost infinite and self-sustaining”
→ This is incorrect.
Radioactive materials decay over time and become less dangerous.
Some last longer than others, but none are “infinite” or self-sustaining in that way.
The real picture
Nuclear weapons are extremely destructive, both immediately and in the long term, but:
The most dangerous radiation effects happen early, shortly after the explosion.
Long-term risks exist, especially cancer, but they are not endlessly spreading or growing across the world.
Places like Hiroshima and Nagasaki today are inhabited and functioning cities, not permanently radioactive wastelands.
Simple summary
The statement is trying to highlight how dangerous nuclear weapons are, which is valid, but it overstates how radiation spreads and lasts. It mixes real science with fear-driven exaggeration.
Thank you for confirming my excesses through AI, I also learnt from it.

It's been years I read about it's effect and so I wrote what I could remember from my head.

I must have exaggerated no doubt cuz most of the effect last quite a while and you kinda limited the effect to just the blast radius from your image search.

I only wanted to point out that nuclear effect is much more than the blast radius which I hope you also learnt from subjecting my write-ups to AI.

If the world allows nuclear, with the world becoming a global village with direct interactions and connectivity, shipping goods and materials, marriages, work, study and other relationships. The effect will spread faster than the final radioactive decay will ever be attained.

The tone of your post limited it's effect to just physical location like any other bomb and so nothing that scary or serious which I wanted to correct though probably exaggerated. But I suppose the context of my message and fundamentals are quite in order.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by HallahGeisher: 3:06am On Apr 16
So what the shouting and fears . Go and deal with it yourselves and leave America about if this. You guys went silent against Iran but wants the United States to lead against North Korea. Impossible
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by HallahGeisher: 3:10am On Apr 16
stuffs2002:
North Korea can strike more than half of United States's
So the US will stand aloof and send a thank you message . Normal normal to things go spoil ooo. But I tell you that North Korea will be raised to the floor. Let him try first.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by stuffs2002: 6:01am On Apr 16
HallahGeisher:
So the US will stand aloof and send a thank you message . Normal normal to things go spoil ooo. But I tell you that North Korea will be raised to the floor. Let him try first.
All these Hollywood movies and stories wey Una go just dey carry upandan.

The United States will strike too and it will be a Mutual Assured Destruction known as MAD and that is the single biggest reason the US will never ever attack North Korea.

If Iran had nuclear weapons, the US will never attack it directly even in their dreams because they know it will mean the end of both countries and the North Korea are not scared of death unlike the US who are scared to die.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by Nwaikpe: 7:06am On Apr 16
Originalsly:
And what is your statement saying? Isn't it WE will NEVER allow Iran to have nuclear weapons because we will not be able to control them? Nuclear weapons is a deterrent.
For rational people.
For people who want to protect themselves.
I bet you, if Japan or South Korea rises to build a nuclear weapon today, the world won't make much fuss about it.

But most muslim countries have positioned themselves as aggressors in all ways and manners.
Iran openly occupies Yemen and Lebanon with their proxy low-class terrorist groups.
They have given most of their low-class weapons to these proxies to use against nations that they don't like (Israel, Saudi Arabia, USA, UAE, etc.)
Meaning that their military doctrine is based on aggression and not defense.

A nuclear weapon to such people is no longer "deterrence" but aggression.

Not only about being a muslim country, but also that an unstable country can NEVER be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
All muslim countries and the majority of third-world countries fall within this category.
Imagine allowing Nigeria to have a nuclear weapon and then Boko Haram overruns Abuja and takes control of that weapon.
The first thing they will do is to fire it on Lagos to cause maximum damage.
So, it is unacceptable.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by Nwaikpe: 7:21am On Apr 16
amaridigital:
Israel doesn't have to talk. Israel should go and invade North Korea.
The guy said he had it and he has been begging Trump and netan-yahoo for the past one month to come and attack him. Why are they afraid? Washington will get an unexpected supernova visitor this evening that will take away 20 million people with it.
The big mouth of white house and house boy in Jerusalem, Are they afraid of kim? Don't they want a nuclear free world again?
Please Trump go and attack kim. Is it only Jesus and the Pope you can abuse? Please try and abuse kim we want to check something?
That is the character and military doctrine of muslim countries.
It is not the military doctrine of the Israeli nation to be the aggressor.
But it is their doctrine to strike first when they have plausible cause that you intend to do so.

Concerning North Korea,
You guys have started hyping them just as you were hyping Iran.
You said the very same thing about Iran until Israel debunked the myth without even losing one soldier.

North Korea has not indicated any interest in being against Israel.
The day they do, Israel will go after them and, in 40 seconds, will change the course of history exactly how they did to Iran in 30 seconds.
It is not by having weapons. It is also about how effective that weapon can be against your opponent.
Iran had thousands of missiles, which Israel has buried underground, and before it resurfaces, the war will be over.

Don't worry. We will prove to you that Iran was not just a "lucky victory" when we go for Turkey and Pakistan.
Remember, Pakistan has nukes like North Korea and Jets from China. But we will be done with them in a maximum of one hour, and their nukes will either be destroyed in Islamabad or be airlifted to Israel. We will teach the Indians how to do it. grin grin grin
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by Nwaikpe: 7:24am On Apr 16
Mattswaggz:
So who's going to checkmate Kim now?.....who's got the balls to try that?. grin grin grin .

Who's interested in playing with rocket man?. cool .
Until he tries invading another country or sponsoring Islamist terrorist on another country,
Then we will respond.

We will demystify the myth of having a nuclear weapon and being untouchable.
Re: North Korea Boosting Ability To Manufacture Nuclear Arms, IAEA Chief Warns by tonididdy(m): 9:20am On Apr 16
donleo92:
What is the need of having the atomic bomb when you wouldn't even use it undecided undecided undecided

Like is not possible for the world to go into a nuclear war, because, after that they will be no earth again. embarassed

Just imagine north Korea nuking America, even mother Russia go back peddle grin

And that's the end of a country called North Korea grin
Nuclear is the Almighty of them all.
If you've it...war can never come to you!
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