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MYSTERY SHOCKS AT NORTH KOREA'S SACRED VOLCANO TRIGGER ERUPTION FEARS AFTER NUCLEAR TEST
Newsweek ^ | 9/15/2017 | Damien Sharkov

Posted on 09/17/2017 10:53:20 AM PDT by JimSEA

China has limited access to a nature reserve on its border with North Korea after mysterious seismic shakes at the rogue nation's nuclear test site were detected less than 10 minutes after it launched a missile earlier this month.

Beijing reportedly closed the site over fears that underground detonations by the North Koreans at a facility near Punggye-ri could lead to rockslides and even trigger an eruption of the active volcano Mount Paektu, which is sacred to North Korea and located right on the border between the two countries.

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TOPICS: Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: korea; mountpaektu; mtpaektu; nkvolcano; northkorea; paektu; supervolcano; volcano
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To: Real Cynic No More
"My theory on why the Chinese haven’t pressured DPRK to stop the missiles: they want to see whether the U.S. anti-missile missiles can really shoot down offensive missiles in flight and they want to see us use them to gather what intelligence they can.

I've wondered about that before. Then, can they figure out yet if the missile carries a warhead?
61 posted on 09/17/2017 5:00:31 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: JimSEA

Where’s the big, fat over grown lizard with the bad breath who was always stomping Tokyo into dust when you need him? Godzilla would straighten Fat Boy out in a heartbeat.


62 posted on 09/17/2017 7:13:12 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Lazamataz
" Why the hell would anyone detonate a nuke near a live volcano???!?"

Could be they want to wake this guy!

63 posted on 09/17/2017 7:33:43 PM PDT by crazy scenario ( I'm a fixer!)
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