Collapse at North Korea nuclear test site 'leaves 200 dead'

The Telegraph ^ | 31 Oct 2017 | Julian Ryall

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As many as 200 North Korean labourers have been killed after a mine shaft being dug at the regime's nuclear test site collapsed, according to Japan's Asahi TV.

Sources in North Korea told the news channel that a tunnel being excavated by around 100 workers at the Punggye-ri test site collapsed earlier this month.

An additional 100 labourers sent to rescue their colleagues were reportedly killed when the tunnel suffered a second collapse.

An exact date for the disaster has not been provided, but it comes shortly after North Korea conducted its sixth - and most powerful - underground nuclear test at the site.

North Korea claims the September 3 test beneath Mount Mantap was of a hydrogen bomb, with monitors suggesting the detonation was equivalent to an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale.

Some analysts put the yield of the weapon as high as 280 kilotons, while seismologists picked up signs of underground collapses in the hours and days after the blast.

Satellite images of the Punngye-ri site taken immediately after the test revealed significant damage to surface features, including landslips.

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Not the CIA but the US Military. Remember Mattis telling the Military to get ready. Oct 10 is a special day in NK. Japan, SK and others predicted another nuke test on that day but no test happened. Do a search on Rod Of God Weapon. Beauty of weapon is no radiation leakage. Bombs would cause severe leakage. Also where is rocketman.