Trains Collide, Explode in North Korea

Yahoo! News ^ | Thu, Apr 22, 2004

[Paulie]

I know it's easy to critize - even poke fun - at how secretive RNK will be on the news getting out. But our own so-called free press is not much better. Need I list the examples of the U.S. Gov't/the 'free' press suppressing critiecal information when it suits their objectives?

[mtbopfuyn]

Hmm, last time something this huge happened on American soil the "so-called free press" did much better and no phone lines were cut so info couldn't get out. Did you somehow miss seeing the media air 'live' a plane crashing into the WTC? Did you somehow miss the media airing tapes of passengers right before it plowed into a field?

[mware]

I would not want to be a member of the higher levels of military staff in North Korea right now.

I sense a purge coming.

[hosepipe]

[ John Kerry reportedly hit by shrapnel from explosion. ]

LoL..

[Paulie]

9/11 was an abberation. Too shocking and obvious to manipulate. How about AA587 or TWA800? Remember OKC? What happened to the promises to get to the bottom and release to the public the cause of the great Northeast blackout? All is forgotton now. There are many more examples.

Yes, it was a stretch to say our press wasn't much better, but we've certainly had our share of withheld information.

[John O]

(continued from the other thread) I guess this raises the numbers a little.

[Willie Green]

All the more reason to upgrade our own rail technology rather than
allowing it to degrade to parity with North Korean standards.

[Bon mots]

Rotfl

That reminds me of Condoleeza Rice's comment about Saudi Arabia... "I hope they can eat their oil."

[Bon mots]

We know he's crazy, but have you read any credible reports about having tertiary syphilis??

Just curious.

[Bon mots]

Theory: passage of the train of Dear Leader Lil' Kim threw off the train schedules.

Bingo!

[Darksheare]

Heard it mentioned back a couple years ago when his father was still alive and he was out in his car running down pedestrians. (I was 15 or so at the time. I'm 28 now.)
Whether or not it's documented and was credible, I dunno.
But given his behavior...
I wouldn't doubt it.

If it is documented and he really is, as I heard him referred to, a 'Syphillitic pretender' to the Kim Il Sung 'throne' - then there's gotta be someone somewhere who knows what it is in reference to and where the document/article is.
In short- I'm basically referring to something I heard in ages past.
/ admission

[DoctorMichael]

Wouldn't it be great if this train was really Kim's and he was carrying back his 'reward' from China in reponse to going along with their wishes and playing ball during the forthcoming talks with the US, etc.

Maybe he's dead. We can only hope.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Prayers for the victims.

[b4its2late]

It's been a few hours since the accident, so.........

Did France surrender yet?

[Don Joe]

Yeah, but even with LPG not every fuel car would BLEVE at the same time.... for several cars to explode at once would require some timing, If one car blew, several people, into the hundreds would have died, but there would have been enough time for people to clear out before the other cars popped....

I don't buy the idea of a series of random low order explosions, with no oxygen (other than atmospheric), blowing up with sufficient force to fling debris for 35 miles.

NWIH do I buy that explanation.

[Don Joe]

Looks like in addition to a food shortage, they will now have a fuel shortage.

I suspect they may have a nuclear weapon shortage too.

[Porterville]

I think the NFPA requires that if a fuel tanker is about to pop then the Firefighters and the public need to be 2500 feet or 1/2 mile from the tanker, however, pieces will blow out to about 3/4 of a mile or more... 35 miles out??? I have know idea.

[MattAMiller]

anybody know anything about nukes? if a nuke were on a train that crashed, could that cause the nuke to detonate?

No. But it could spread some nuclear material around.

[happygrl]

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