“Based on the fact that North Korea has a limited land area and bearing in mind the sensitivity of its nuclear programme, it most likely does not have too many suitable peaks to choose from.
How long the mountain would continue to stand would also depend on where the North Koreans placed the bombs, Wang said.”
The Chinese also said part of the problem is the North Koreans are being cheap about it and building hormonal tunnels rather than vertical tunnels, as everyone else does.
This is a man made disaster waiting to happen because north Korea can’t be troubled to do nuclear testing the smart way.
That said I doubt it will be that bad, the world has seen far worse. Mostly something for Japan, South Korea, China, and Russia to all yell at North Korea over.
Im still more worried about what they send our way.
Methinks the PR machines are spinning.
NK threatens to use EMP against the US.
US space weather claims sun has sent a giant solar CME our way which might result in EMP-like devastation to our power grid.
US warns of pre-emptive strike against NK Nuclear testing and warehousing facilities.
China warns a massive nuclear detonation at the NK testing site caused by NK weapons testing may result in a giant hole under the mountain and it collapsing, therefore any radiation in the area afterwards is effectively caused by the NKs.
FWIW, sure seems like if things go awry they may be easily explained by natural phenomenon and foolish people playing with nukes.
(...and not one SUV implicated...)