Apparently, they have had a major event at a nuke facility. Perhaps it collapsed due to something moving at hypersonic speeds struck it. Just sayin’…
200 feared dead after tunnel collapses at North Korean nuclear test site, Japanese TV claims
About 200 people are feared dead in North Korea after underground tunnels at a nuclear test site that was feared to be unstable reportedly collapsed, crushing 100 people in the initial cave-in and 100 others when the tunnels again gave way on top of rescuers.
The collapse at the Punggye-ri test site on Oct. 10 occurred while people were doing construction on the underground tunnel, Japan’s Asahi TV reported, citing a source in North Korea. The television station also said North Korea’s sixth nuclear test on Sept. 3 most likely caused the tunnel to crumble and created serious damage in the region.
No officials have confirmed the Japanese TV station’s claims, but experts have feared for more than a month that the test site was on the verge of crumbling since the nuclear blast.
Well, if it did happen as described one can only hope the initial folks killed were the research staff and any foreign helpers they may have. Sadly I doubt ole ramma-lamma lil dong was there.
Bad things happening to the North Koreans leadership, scientists, party members is good. The population doesn’t need to pay the price for their dictator’s behavior. The civilians are just pawns and victims caught in the middle.
I wonder if they had an accident with a nuke in the facility rather than damage from a test as they claim…
If it was just construction and rescue workers that it’s sad that 200 people lost their lives. Kinda like the discussion in Clerks about the second Death Star being destroyed…
If it’s 200 or more people, I think we can safely assume a mixture of both. Putting on my shiny tinfoil hat, maybe a kinetic launched from atmospheric weapons platform we have knowing there would be a high % of high value targets there that day for what ever reason. A guy can hope…
Wasn’t there a warning about one of their test sites being on the verge of collapse some three months ago?
I believe there was an issue with a potential collapse due to over mining the area and doing some rather volatile testing within the tunnels in a mountain. I believe this was put out in July/Sep time frame around about the time of the second successful launch.
I’m guessing it might have had some help, perhaps China has had enough finally?
