N. Korea Train Collision Triggers Huge Blast

[Kooperman]

N. Korea train collision triggers massive blast

State of emergency reported; thousands said dead, injured

MSNBC News Services

Updated: 3:01 p.m. ET April 22, 2004SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean authorities declared a state of emergency Thursday in the region where two fuel trains collided and exploded, killing or injuring as many as 3,000 people, South Korean media reported.

Yonhap news agency said officials of the secretive North Korean government had put in place a "type of state of emergency" around the town of Ryongchon, near the Chinese border.

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[cjules13]

It'd be easy for some people to be glad this happened, "...the Red Bastards", but remember these were ordinary people on their way to work and normal commuters just like us.

Going to work for their $5 a day under a repressive government, this is a HUGE loss of life and a freak accident. I can't believe so many dead.

[DudeAsInCool]

How sad is that? May they rest in peace..

[cjules13]

I guess it's down to only 150. Not nearly as bad... That just shows how censored their government is... We have these WILDLY differrent reports.... who knows if this is even true.

DPRK gets embarrassed over shit they shouldn't even be... Everything has to be a big giant secret - even when it hurts them cuz they're so stubborn. I bet there was more dead but they didn't want any offeres of aid so they've played it down...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...in_explosion_31

[method77]

the local news just reported that nearly 200 are dead. I don't know what to believe. Those estimates have a huge difference

[Umma]

Lunch time news here said 50 dead and 1000 injured but that's an estimate as they're stilll digging through the rubble looking for bodies.

Hard to know what the real stats are but just one person's life lost is still one too many.

[Shawn]

Just based on the fact they tried to cover up the explosion completely, I'm having doubts that it was simply two fuel trains hitting.

Where is the need to cover that up?

[Kooperman]

Just based on the fact they tried to cover up the explosion completely, I'm having doubts that it was simply two fuel trains hitting.

Where is the need to cover that up?

That was my first thought also Shawn.....nuclear weapons of some form.

[Umma]

The news here said one train was pulling two wagons full of dynamite but they didnt elaborate.

[method77]

news said that it was dynamite and petroleum