Why is everyone making such a big deal about North Korea Blowing up a Nuke cooling tower that didn't work?

This particular plant has been in disrepair and inoperable for years. What they blew up was little more than a shell. It's not like they shut a reactor down and dismantled it just to appease the US and its allies. Why is this such a big deal?Why is everyone making such a big deal about North Korea Blowing up a Nuke cooling tower that didn't work?
The 25% of Americans that still support Bush will claim this is a victory of his great international political wisdom. The reactor has been shutdown for at least a year and the several hundred kilos of weapons grade plutonium is missing. I don't know what the celebration is all about either.Why is everyone making such a big deal about North Korea Blowing up a Nuke cooling tower that didn't work?
Symbolism. Your avatar looks like a Marine. If you are, you understand symbolism.
There were skilled atomic observers there who all said this was the first step in North Korea dismantling they nuclear establishments or do you know more than them ?
Not everyone of us is fooled. But then, there are those on here who want us to leave Iran alone and let them have nukes too. Pathetic.
You call it a shell? That was part of the their path to the 2006 explosion success.

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