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Kim’s Disaster: North Korean Nuclear Base Collapses, Killing at Least 200 People
Western Journalism [Compliation] ^ | October 31, 2017 | Jack Davis

Posted on 10/31/2017 11:37:58 AM PDT by righttackle44

[This is a news brief from an e-mail compilation]:

Information emerging from furtive North Korea indicates that a tunnel at the regime’s nuclear test site collapsed last month after a nuclear test, killing about 200 people.

A report from Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi, citing unnamed sources, said 100 people were killed in an initial collapse around Sept. 10, and another 100 died in a rescue operation.

Other reports put the date of the collapse as Oct. 10. No official North Korean announcement was made about the date of the collapse.

North Korea’s massive Sept. 3 test caused multiple tremors and landslides in the region, according to Reuters.

Even before news of the tunnel collapse emerged, Western analysts had said the region might be unfit for more nuclear tests.

(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournalism.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: disaster; kim; noko; nuclear
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To: Popman

Wouldn’t the first 100 have been nuclear/rocket scientists and support staff?


21 posted on 10/31/2017 11:55:11 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Alberta's Child

Hahaha!


22 posted on 10/31/2017 11:56:06 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: Haiku Guy

Easy to remember numbers are important. Like 100,000 new police officers on the street. Not 87,592.


23 posted on 10/31/2017 11:56:31 AM PDT by Gamecock (God clothes us with righteousness when he justifies us! ~ Martin Luther)
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To: righttackle44
Fatboy Kim went into hiding for some reason.

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Maybe he's not hiding 😳

24 posted on 10/31/2017 11:57:52 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Red Badger
China is getting pissed nuked.....................

Fixed it.

25 posted on 10/31/2017 11:58:46 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: lee martell
"You go now!!!"

https://youtu.be/aLkTuWdKrqY

26 posted on 10/31/2017 11:59:07 AM PDT by bagster (The North remembers.)
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To: Popman
100 rescuers to save 100 people ?

Must have been some very important people who got buried first...

Once the excavation of the tunnel and the Zero Room is complete it takes many highly trained technicians and engineers to set up the testing and support equipment to get ready for the installation of the device.

We don't know how far along they were so there could be an outside chance the device was already installed in the Zero Room and they were finalizing things for the shot.

I doubt the Norks have too many really skilled, smart people who are capable of supporting these tests so it would be of extremely high importance to rescue any survivors.

27 posted on 10/31/2017 12:02:51 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: righttackle44

This would be the best time for China to assassinate Kim. They can blame it on Trump and the Democrats will dance their sassy dance of shame.


28 posted on 10/31/2017 12:06:37 PM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: righttackle44

Sounds like some of outcomes on the old Roadrunner cartoon when Coyote would cook up schemes against Roadrunner . . . Beep! Beep!


29 posted on 10/31/2017 12:08:51 PM PDT by t4texas (If you can't run with the big dogs . . . STAY ON THE PORCH!)
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To: righttackle44

“Bumps in the road”


30 posted on 10/31/2017 12:24:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: righttackle44

I have sympathy for people born into severe slavery.

...until they help a genocical mass muderer wannabe.


31 posted on 10/31/2017 12:25:19 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: t4texas

Acme jet powered rollerskates. Lol.


32 posted on 10/31/2017 12:26:13 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: righttackle44

How bad is the radiation leak?


33 posted on 10/31/2017 12:29:26 PM PDT by EBH ( May God Save the Republic)
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To: righttackle44

200 killed leads me to believe that a large number of people were in the tunnel setting up another test. It is possible that Kim’s nuclear ambitions just ended.


34 posted on 10/31/2017 12:32:01 PM PDT by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowbot)
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To: righttackle44

Sounds Biblical. Unless, of course, there is photographic evidence of some guy who looks like Sean Connery leaving the scene after the explosion....


35 posted on 10/31/2017 12:32:25 PM PDT by Bernard (If we could tax Stupid, Congress could balance the budget)
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To: righttackle44

That’s a nice tunnel you have there, it’d be a shame if anything bad happened to it.


36 posted on 10/31/2017 12:38:33 PM PDT by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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To: righttackle44

Bttt.

5.56mm


37 posted on 10/31/2017 12:39:09 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: righttackle44

Could illegals from Mexico do the jobs that N. Koreans won’t do?


38 posted on 10/31/2017 12:45:57 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: righttackle44

The really big question is was there any nuclear materials release during the collapse? In the winter the prevailing winds over the Korean peninsula are from the North, and in the summer they flow from the Southeast.

The North’s test site is at North Hamgyong, which is due southeast of Changchun, which has a total population of 7,674,439. If it blows more westerly, it could contaminate the city of Shenyang (about 8.1 million), more easterly and it could hit the Russian city of Vladivostok (about 607,000).


39 posted on 10/31/2017 1:19:16 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Hitlers Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is "My Jihad")
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To: buffaloguy

Indeed, some of the initial 100 might have been important enough to the nuclear program to risk another 100 in what would almost certainly be a futile attempt at rescue. Maybe some important scientists or engineers.


40 posted on 10/31/2017 1:27:35 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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