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North Korea nuclear disaster kills at least 200 after tunnel collapse at Kim Jong-un's base
UK Mirror ^ | 31 OCT 2017 | Patrick Lion & Chris Kitching

Posted on 10/31/2017 4:03:34 AM PDT by jjotto

It's understood that 100 people were trapped in underground tunnels, and a further collapse occurred during the rescue operation, suggesting that a total of 200 people may have been killed

At least 200 people have been killed at Kim Jong-un's nuclear test site in North Korea after a tunnel collapsed.

A news agency quoted a North Korean official as saying that a collapse occurred during the construction of an underground tunnel at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in the northeast of North Korea on October 10.

According to the report, 100 people were trapped in underground tunnels, and a further collapse occurred during the rescue operation, suggesting that a total of 200 people may have been killed.

The accident is due to the weakening of the surrounding grounds due to the sixth nuclear test conducted here on September 3, TV Asahi reported...

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: korea; nknukes; nkoutofcontrol; nktunnels; nuclear
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1 posted on 10/31/2017 4:03:34 AM PDT by jjotto
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To: jjotto

The NORK nuclear team failed to employ any structural or geological engineers.


2 posted on 10/31/2017 4:08:29 AM PDT by littleharbour
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To: jjotto

Yea, the weakening from the nuclear test and the cruise missile no one reported.


3 posted on 10/31/2017 4:08:32 AM PDT by anton
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To: jjotto

Keep in mind that these are our enemies and they are bent on destroying us. Maybe it was an accident. Maybe it wasn’t.


4 posted on 10/31/2017 4:09:24 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks jjotto.
The accident is due to the weakening of the surrounding grounds due to the sixth nuclear test conducted here on September 3
IOW, a fustercluck.
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5 posted on 10/31/2017 4:14:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SamAdams76

Could have been the Chinese or Russians, for that matter.


6 posted on 10/31/2017 4:15:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SamAdams76

paranoid much ?

the NORKs are clownish trolls ; best ignored and left alone. They’ll collapse under the failure of their planned economy.

We win through free market capitalism. Bikinis, Jeans, and Rock n’ Roll always whups dour marxist-lennism.


7 posted on 10/31/2017 4:16:51 AM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: jjotto

The Chinese will have plenty to say if the fallout blows their direction.


8 posted on 10/31/2017 4:19:19 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Beer! Because you can't drink bacon!)
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To: vooch

They have absolutely no reliance for their economy other than Mother China. Free market means not a damned thing to them.


9 posted on 10/31/2017 4:21:04 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: jjotto

If there was a tunnel collapse at a secret underground base, my money is on Flint.


10 posted on 10/31/2017 4:21:29 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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Russia and North Korea declare 2015 a ‘year of friendship’

“The biggest cause for concern is the growing military alliance between Russia and North Korea, with the two regimes recently announcing plans to conduct a series of joint army, navy and air force exercises this year.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11463265/Russia-and-North-Korea-declare-2015-a-year-of-friendship.html

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Russia steps up North Korea support to constrain US

May 17, 2017

“Despite efforts by the United Nations to impose isolating sanctions on North Korea in response to the country’s continued development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, trade between Russia and North Korea soared more than 85 percent in the first four months of the year.”

http://www.dw.com/en/russia-steps-up-north-korea-support-to-constrain-us/a-38867861

11 posted on 10/31/2017 4:21:54 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR page)
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To: vooch

They said that about Hitler too during most of the 1930s. We made fun of him. Everybody laughed at his silly mustache. Let him play his silly war games over there across the ocean. What harm could he possibly do to us?


12 posted on 10/31/2017 4:22:13 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: jjotto

‘They’ hired the same Arabs who decided it was more effective to use live bombs when training suicide bombers...

PAY ATTENTION......

I am ONLY going to show you this ONE TIME.....

Kind of makes one wonder about the structural soundness of the ‘supposed’ tunnels under the 38th P.


13 posted on 10/31/2017 4:22:23 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: jjotto

Wrong Koreans died.


14 posted on 10/31/2017 4:25:26 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: jjotto

200 fewer mouths to feed.

L


15 posted on 10/31/2017 4:28:24 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: jjotto
Putin wants a "unified Korea" -- under his NK comrades' control.

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Sept 5, 2017

North Korea nuclear crisis: Putin calls sanctions useless

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said pursuing further sanctions against North Korea is “useless”, saying “they’d rather eat grass than give up their nuclear programme”.

The US said on Monday it would table a new UN resolution on tougher sanctions in the wake of the latest test of a nuclear bomb by the North on Sunday.

Mr Putin also said that the ramping up of “military hysteria” could lead to global catastrophe.

He said diplomacy was the only answer.

China, the North’s main ally, has also called for a return to negotiations. ...”

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41158281

16 posted on 10/31/2017 4:33:51 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR page)
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To: jjotto

Wasn’t it yesterday I saw an article here stating that China warned them this could happen? I feel terrible for those people that were killed needlessly, just trying to get a weapon ready to stroke Kim Jong-un’s ego.


17 posted on 10/31/2017 4:46:43 AM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: jjotto

They Christian in me doesn’t want to see anyone die. The patriot in me says, if a couple hundred NK have to die like this, let’s hope they were the cream of their nuclear program and not just some guys they hired to dig.


18 posted on 10/31/2017 4:48:43 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Doing my part to help make America great again!)
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To: jjotto

The survivors were probably executed.


19 posted on 10/31/2017 4:52:23 AM PDT by Husker24
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To: littleharbour

It is totally amazing that even this little dribble of reporting got out. One would suspect the real number of lives sacrificed in this North Korean version of the “Manhattan Project” was far higher, and proceeded in unexpected ways. The radiation contamination alone has to be many times worse than even Chernobyl, and the concept of dosimeters would be limited to use by only the top level people in the testing complex.


20 posted on 10/31/2017 4:56:28 AM PDT by alloysteel (The rhetorical question, "How stupid can you be?" is just considered to be a challenge by some.)
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