[Fiji Hill]

For years, a story has been going around that Japan actually tested a nuclear device in what is now North Korea in August, 1945.

[sparklite2]

Streifer doesn’t believe an atomic bomb was ever tested in Hamhung. In an email correspondence he wrote,

``I have personally interviewed an allied prisoner of war who was about five miles away at the time. He didn’t recall an explosion at sea. I also read the diaries of other POWs, and they make no mention of an explosion at sea. If an atomic bomb explodes five miles away, you’ll know it!’’

[roadcat]

For years, a story has been going around that Japan actually tested a nuclear device in what is now North Korea in August, 1945.

The attached article mentioned that. At the time, the Japanese concentrated all industrialization in North Korea, and South Korea was largely agrarian farmland. The Soviets grabbed factories and contents, and shipped them home, including the captured Japanese scientists.