Posted on 10/31/2017 7:15:41 AM PDT by mandaladon
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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Why hasn’t someone offed him??!!
This is about preservation of their entire country!!!
More than likely the dead are soldiers and not “laborers”, North Korean
uses conscripted soldiers for civil works projects -this is common
there. Given the sensitivity of this site it’s a certainty.
Yep. All these "rapid advancements" in the Nork's nuclear program come at a price and we're seeing that today.
With any luck this sets back the NK nuke program several years.
Mount Mantap now Mount Mantrap .............................
Kim says, “There are bound to be some bumps in the road.”
oops
Its a start. With any luck they’ll blow their own hellhole up and save us the trouble.
Hopefully Lil Dong Un was inspecting the tunnel at that time.
...because the guy could kill millions with a single attack including thousands of Americans. Taking him out is not worth the risk until he moves first.
I believe the russians warned that the area was unstable a couple of months back, after Fat Boy's last nuke test. I'd like to think the CIA had something to do with this, but I doubt their competence and besides, they're preoccupied with playing dirty politics in the USA.
"...not worth the risk..."
Thomas Wictor on Twitter has been all over this.
https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/911688194885746688
Lets hope some of his top scientists and military generals suffocated slowly
Maybe some Iranian observers, too
Must have been some big dawgs there to send in such a large rescue team
Chinese scientists have warned that the site eould collapse not if but when, and send a cloud of radiation into China
Winning
Now would be a good time to bomb the nuke site.
Of course the UN human rights division will be on its way to investigate any human rights violations...hahahahahha, yeah right, not holding my breath.
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