The disaster occurred when flammable cargo exploded at Ryongchon Station at around 13:00 local time (04:00 GMT). The news was released by South Korean media outlets, which reported that up to 3,000 people had been killed or injured in the blast and subsequent fires.
The North Korean government declared a state of emergency in the region, but little information about the accident has been made public by the North Korean government. Shortly after the accident the North Korean government cut telephone lines to the rest of the world (an action correspondents attributed either to a desire to inhibit foreign reporting or to prevent their own population from learning news about the accident).
More likely it was his sister visiting China. Rocket man is too afraid to travel. Anyone know if Dennis Rodman was also in China?
I remember seeing a couple dozen pictures that were released at the time that were taken by an international aid agency that was in the country at the time. The ground level images looked very similar to the damage seen in nuclear tests. Not saying it was but the over-pressures from the blast wave created the same type of damage. Pretty much the whole city was turned to rubble. Some have speculated that it was an early deployment of the "Rods from God" Google images has some of the pictures.
>>The disaster occurred when flammable cargo exploded at Ryongchon Station at around 13:00 local time (04:00 GMT). The news was released by South Korean media outlets, which reported that up to 3,000 people had been killed or injured in the blast and subsequent fires.<<
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That’ll teach them NOT to use LNG — safest and cleanest fuel.