[Robert A Cook PE]

Wouldn't you like to get some samples of that "dirt" from the blast area?

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Maybe we have some tiny drones to get a thimble full?

[Boot Hill]

• "Wouldn't you like to get some samples of that "dirt" from the blast area?"

From the blast area? LOL, after seeing the photos that show the size of the immense crater, I imagine you can get those samples from as far away as the Sea of Japan!

But it does boggle the imagination as to just what explosive substance it was that Syria couldn't make at home and they had to travel all the way to North Korea in order to obtain. Or maybe we have it backwards, maybe Syria brought it to North Korea. Maybe it was something Syria obtained from Iraq, just prior to our invasion. Hmmmm!

One guess, given what North Korea lacks and what is critical to their bomb building program, would be a large supply of RDX or HMX, which is needed to achieve critical mass in the core of a nuke. There just isn't a lot of suitable alternatives to those materials, and they are extremely energy-intensive materials to produce and energy is something is in short supply in the "people's paradise".

If that guess is right, it narrows the possible scenarios as to what happened in the Ryongchon event. There is no (nearly) no chance that the RDX or HMX went off by accident. It could only be an intentional event. It would also explain why the North Koreans are so intent on trying to hide what the explosive substance was.

--Boot Hill

[menotyu]

Good point, also let's just asume for a moment that there were 2 trains on that section of track. How fast could they be travelling that close to the station it's a dead end? Surely not fast enough to cause anything like this. here is another pic from the site before they bulldozed everything. Notice the 3 gentlemen at the site looking at the scene. One is wearing jeans with a jacket the other 2 are wearing suits. Very strange in this town to see guys in suits. They don't look like reporters they don't have note pads or anything and one of them seems interested in the person taking this pic. Since we are on the theory train here's mine. We did this, amonnium nitrate is used as fuel for surface to surface missles. Missles which Syrian agents was overseeing the delivery of that day. In the last couple of days there have been stories that NK is ready to sell some of their missle tech, this is a message to us "hey, we know it was you". Oh and those 3 guys are in my estimation NK agents looking over the damage. Oh well it's just a thoery.