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N Korea mountain used as nuclear test site risk of collapsing says Chinese expert
FoxNews.com ^ | 5-Sept-2017 | By Katherine Lam

Posted on 09/05/2017 8:23:29 AM PDT by topher

A mountain in North Korea believed to have served as the site of five of the rogue regime’s nuclear tests -- including Sunday’s supposed hydrogen bomb explosion -- is at risk of collapsing and leaking radiation into the region, a Chinese scientist said Monday.

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui province, examined the Punggye-ri site and said they “were confident” underground detonations were occurring underneath the mountain, South China Morning Post reported. Wang Naiyan, a former chairman of the China Nuclear Society and a researcher on China's own nuclear weapons

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1 posted on 09/05/2017 8:23:29 AM PDT by topher
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To: topher

Chinese scientist claims this could cause a disaster...


2 posted on 09/05/2017 8:25:10 AM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: topher

Let’s give ‘em a hand.


3 posted on 09/05/2017 8:26:11 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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Well that’s a shame. Would probably leak radiation into China. Maybe they should do something?


4 posted on 09/05/2017 8:28:22 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: topher

With all the pollution in China they’ll never notice a little radiation


5 posted on 09/05/2017 8:32:58 AM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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To: topher

What’s it going to collapse in to?


6 posted on 09/05/2017 8:34:48 AM PDT by caver
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With all the pollution in China they’ll never notice a little radiation

Exactly. The people of China crap more radiation than this possible exposure in NK.

7 posted on 09/05/2017 8:41:25 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: caver

The voids of the tests, and the inaction of red China.


8 posted on 09/05/2017 8:43:21 AM PDT by onedoug
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Radiation in china would be a good thing. It would kill a lot of germs and bacteria.


9 posted on 09/05/2017 8:56:15 AM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: TXnMA

May be of interest.


10 posted on 09/05/2017 8:59:25 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
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To: caver

A lovely lake that produces glowing 3-headed carp


11 posted on 09/05/2017 9:04:25 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: topher

That fat little nutcase is going to blow himself up....!


12 posted on 09/05/2017 9:08:18 AM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: topher

Well maybe you should have nipped this problem in the bud China. Like twenty years ago.


13 posted on 09/05/2017 9:10:54 AM PDT by McGruff (2017 or 1984?)
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Hey China. You raised the insane pit bull. It’s up to you to put it out of our misery.


14 posted on 09/05/2017 9:19:56 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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I wonder if the Soviets were as smart as the Chinese in letting theiron close allies be nuclear armed or testing their own nuclear weapons near their own borders.


15 posted on 09/05/2017 9:34:02 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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““We call it ‘taking the roof off.’ If the mountain collapses and the hole is exposed, it will let out many bad things.” Wang told the South China Morning Post.”

This could be broadened to refer to Fat Boy’s government as well of the mountains.


16 posted on 09/05/2017 9:36:01 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Don Corleone

He needs some strawberry koolaid and cyanide so he can go out like a man


17 posted on 09/05/2017 9:53:58 AM PDT by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: topher

China has enabled NK to be crazy for 60 years. They own the trouble it brings.


18 posted on 09/05/2017 9:57:15 AM PDT by lurk
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To: caver

Might fall through and come out in Death Valley?


19 posted on 09/05/2017 10:04:46 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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That’s a shocker. What did the Environmental Impact Study say?

I assumed the NORKS have their own versions of the EPA and NRC.


20 posted on 09/05/2017 10:10:12 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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