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1 posted on 04/22/2004 7:29:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
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John Kerry reportedly hit by shrapnel from explosion.
2 posted on 04/22/2004 7:30:02 AM PDT by dennis1x
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FNC just reported on this but they didn't have any other details
3 posted on 04/22/2004 7:31:27 AM PDT by Mo1 (Make Michael Moore cry.... DONATE MONTHLY!!!)
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First, prayers for the dead.

Second, fury that Kim Jong Il barely escaped being among them.

-Dan
4 posted on 04/22/2004 7:31:47 AM PDT by Flux Capacitor (Drafty, Isn't It?)
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I'm guessing that the Red Chinese were rushing fuel into North Korea (must have reached some kind of understanding) and somebody simply didn't manage the rail traffic adequately.

Now . . . why would Red China be rushing fuel into North Korea?

6 posted on 04/22/2004 7:33:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin (LESS government please, NOT more.)
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How very sad.
8 posted on 04/22/2004 7:35:28 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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The number killed or injured could reach 3,000,

Holy cow! That's horrible.

9 posted on 04/22/2004 7:35:30 AM PDT by Pete
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3000?!?!
10 posted on 04/22/2004 7:35:40 AM PDT by CygnusXI (Where's that dang Meteor already?)
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Thousands

!!!!

12 posted on 04/22/2004 7:37:13 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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3,000. This is truly horrible.
14 posted on 04/22/2004 7:38:56 AM PDT by RichardW
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http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp;:4087cb5b:e39564acef2090f9?type=worldNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=4908127

"The station was destroyed as if hit by a bombardment and debris flew high into the sky," Yonhap said, quoting the unidentified sources.

"We have not yet received official information on the accident. We are trying to confirm the report," a Unification Ministry spokesman said in Seoul.
18 posted on 04/22/2004 7:40:10 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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*sigh* Timing is everything.....

...nine hours after Kim passed through on his way back to Pyongyang.

20 posted on 04/22/2004 7:41:45 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Veni Vidi Velcro)
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Wow. How sad.
23 posted on 04/22/2004 7:42:18 AM PDT by FourPeas (We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers)
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I have to ask... what are we up-to or what is Japan up-to in N. Korea?
29 posted on 04/22/2004 7:44:41 AM PDT by Porterville (Kerry has no gravitas!!!)
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Thins is how they ride trains over there so 3000 could be a conservative estimate. The pic is from Bangledesh but its pretty common across asia to pack the trains inside and out.

35 posted on 04/22/2004 7:49:17 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Have you read your Bible today ?)
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Maybe this cause a popular uprising against Kim Jong Il's regime, which indeed may fall. It's very rare that this 'accident' has been released.
42 posted on 04/22/2004 7:55:01 AM PDT by Reader of news
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If the death rate is correct, then this is NOT a mere train collision. There are reasons, based on its xenophobias, that North Korea is called "The Hermit Kingdom." The truth will come out, but it will take time.

As I write this, Fox is reporting that the NK "news blackout" included "cutting the phone service to the town where this happened." So it is definitely more than meets the eye right now.

Congressman Billybob

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47 posted on 04/22/2004 8:02:50 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com Visit. Join. Help. Please.)
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From AP Wire - direct feed

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) _ As many as 3,000 people were killed or injured Thursday when two trains carrying oil and liquefied petroleum gas collided and exploded in a North Korean train station near the Chinese border, South Korean media reported.

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, reportedly had passed through the station as he returned from China hours earlier, South Korea's all-news cable channel, YTN, reported.

The number killed or injured could reach 3,000, YTN said, citing unidentified sources on the Chinese side of the border. ``The area around Ryongchon station has turned into ruins as if it were bombarded,'' South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted witnesses as saying. ``Debris from the explosion soared high into the sky and drifted to Sinuju,'' a North Korean town on the border with China, the agency said.

Yonhap, quoting witnesses in the Chinese city of Dandong on the border with the North, said the explosion occurred about 1 p.m. at Ryongchon. It said Kim passed through nine hours earlier, returning to Pyongyang. Ryongchon is about 12 miles from the Chinese border. Yang Jong-hwa, a spokeswoman of South Korea's Unification Ministry, said her organization could not immediately confirm the reports. The ministry is in charge of relations with North Korea.

The Defense Ministry likewise was not commenting. ``We are aware of the news reports, but we will not make any comments at this stage,'' said a spokesman, speaking on customary condition of anonymity.

YTN reported that the causalities included Chinese living in the North Korean border region, and that Chinese in Dandong were desperate to learn about their relatives. Some of the injured were evacuated to hospitals in Dandong, it said. Chinese and North Korean traders frequently cross the border at Dandong, a bustling industrial city on Yalu River.

North Korea's state-run news agency on Thursday confirmed that Kim had made a secretive trip to China on Monday through Wednesday, but carried no comments on the reported explosion. The accident resembled a disaster in Iran on Feb. 18, when runaway train cars carrying fuel and industrial chemicals derailed in the town Neyshabur, setting off explosions that destroyed five villages. At least 200 people were killed.

AP-ES-04-22-04 1104EDT

51 posted on 04/22/2004 8:10:42 AM PDT by NYer (O Promise of God from age to age. O Flower of the Gospel!)
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I suppose this won't slow Willie Green down in his rail promotions.

People can be killed in airplane crashes, but to really have a tragedy takes a train.

66 posted on 04/22/2004 8:30:49 AM PDT by narby (Clarke's job was to prevent terrorist attacks, but he's better at CYA)
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terrorism?
72 posted on 04/22/2004 8:44:19 AM PDT by Ciexyz
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Theory: passage of the train of Dear Leader Lil' Kim threw off the train schedules.
78 posted on 04/22/2004 9:00:02 AM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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