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Train death in N Korea. Perhaps 3000 people equal to WTC, but presumably just an accident..
Prayers all around. I can't even imagine this.
Prayers all around. I can't even imagine this.
How do you prepare for the end of the world?
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Yow! Very similar to what happened recently in Iran. But 3,000 casualties!
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Too many people liviing way too close together and in North Korea's case, anyway, massive overspending on the military (including nuclear) at the expense of even the most basic civilian needs of food, shelter and technology. One cannot even imagine something loke this occurring in most of the world - the safeguards on such volatile transports wouldn't have allowed those trains within miles of one another.Cathy Wilde wrote:
What is wrong with this planet????!!!!!
Its a terrible thing, but so is the millions of Koreans who've starved to death in recent years so Kim Il Jong could buy weapons and supplies for his oversized army. And both, ultimately, have to be laid at the feet of a repressive and paranoid regime.
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The tight lock they keep on the news over there makes it difficult to really know the extent of the damage. According to NPR's correspondent this morning, the official death toll was at 54, but was expected to skyrocket because it appears over 1,200 residences were destroyed...
1,200 residences, hard to fathom. What were these trains carrying that could cause such extensive destruction?
1,200 residences, hard to fathom. What were these trains carrying that could cause such extensive destruction?
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Gasoline and Liquid Petrol Gas. Very similar thing happened to (fellow axis-of-eviller) Iran in February, where 5 villages were completely destroyed. One of the trains may have been a gift from China. The initial reports were 3,000 casualties, but nobody was saying how many dead or wounded. Now they're saying at least 1,500 wounded 150 confirmed dead but the death toll will rise sharply. This is an old railway (put on by the Japanese during WWII) and very accident-prone, they say.pthouron wrote:1,200 residences, hard to fathom. What were these trains carrying that could cause such extensive destruction?
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Oh good, glauber, maybe you can clear this up.
I caught just a quick headline on NPR about this this morning and I also caught something about them trying to couple a car loaded with dynamite to a car with gasoline?!
The inevitable "What?!" came out of my mouth but they didn't hear me so they didn't repeat it...
I caught just a quick headline on NPR about this this morning and I also caught something about them trying to couple a car loaded with dynamite to a car with gasoline?!
The inevitable "What?!" came out of my mouth but they didn't hear me so they didn't repeat it...
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No one really knows for certain what was on either train. At least one had gasoline or petrolium tanker cars, but one may have actually been a passenger train. Lots of theories flying around right now. It's hard to tell since the North Korean government has stopped service to most international phone lines, so no one can call outside the country.
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