Collapse at North Korea nuclear test site 'leaves 200 dead'

[Cartoonist]

Source: The Telegraph (UK)

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.

Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/31/collapse-north-korea-nuclear-test-site-leaves-200-dead/amp/

[Rollo]

1. China already warned NK of a major catastrophe if further nuclear tests are conducted in that region

China will not be amused if NK keeps this up... because the major collapse China predicts will blanket part of China with radioactive fallout...

[Sunlei]

2. my God, they dig tunnels by hand like the 17/1800s

[jmowreader]

27. Not quite like the 17/1800s

North Korea has a LOT of granite under it. They blast out a piece of rock, then send in crews with shovels and carts to remove the rubble. North Korea is also on the Amurian tectonic plate, so it's seismically active. It appears they found a fault line and dug a tunnel right on top of it.

The thing North Korea does best is tunneling; they do a lot of it and almost always very safely. This incident surprises the hell out of me, and I wouldn't be shocked to see the engineers who sited this tunnel be executed by machine gun within the next few weeks.

[BigmanPigman]

3. I feel badly for the victims...too bad it didn't nail

Rocket Man instead. That would be perfect Karma.

[PatrickforO]

4. So...why are they putting a mineshaft in at a nuclear test site?

Can you imagine the living hell that must be those workers' lives, even when the tunnels aren't collapsing? Is this some kind of punishment for dissidents? Go to the radiated mines?

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

7. Likely digging another tunnel

for another test.

[IronLionZion]

10. A lot of military activity in NK happens deep underground

over 60 years of preparation for the day America finally carpet bombs them again. They are more prepared for war with us than most anyone.

[Codeine]

13. Living Hell is the norm for pretty much everyone there.

I'd find it difficult to bring a child into that world.

[sarisataka]

17. The tunnels

Are for bomb tests.
The laborers are political prisoners

[Not Ruth]

5. Wonder if we did that

Kind of coldblooded

[LexVegas]

15. Uh..what? nt

[Not Ruth]

16. Sabotage

[LanternWaste]

26. What specifically leads you to that observation?

What specifically leads you to that observation?

[PearliePoo2]

6. Maybe this is why the maniacal fuck said the next test will be over the Pacific Ocean.

And just where over the Pacific will that be exactly? Near Guam? Japan? Hawaii? The West Coast?

Not good. Don't do it pal.

[Dopers_Greed]

8. I wonder if Dump will try to take credit for this

[JI7]

9. Fuck kim jong un. I wish the people could get rid of him

[Towlie]

11. I assume that these 200 are the first victims of Kim Jong-un's new weapon of mass destruction.

[DK504]

12. These poor people are slaves.

They aren't fed enough to stage a rebellion, they are bone thin, except Kim Jung Crazy.

[Nitram]

14. The fear is that the whole mountain will collapse and a plume of readioactive dust will spread

across the region.

[bluestarone]

18. another reason for no pre-emptive strike

We would poison the whole region with the radiation that's being contained there now ( i know kim doesn't give a shit BUT we should)

[Calista241]

19. Nuclear tests take place in remote areas, away from all other infrastructure

Destroying a test site will accomplish less than nothing, except making a big mess.

The reactor itself, manufacturing facilities, and assembly areas, as well as any missile maintenance, production, and infrastructure would be the priority targets for a preemptive strike.

[bluestarone]

20. this i understand BUT

lot's of radiation just waiting to be released where the tests were done and THIS AREA will not be un-desturbed? i disagree with your thoughts just saying

[Nitram]

25. Actually, Calista, hitting the site with a nuclear weapon would spread an enormous radioactive

dust throughout the region. Tests are performed underground to keep radioactive material out of the atmosphere. A nuclear blast would spread it far and wide. I suppose we could wait for a strong wind blowing towards China before launching such a strike...

[Calista241]

28. My assumption was that we were talking about a preemptive conventional

Assault on NK’s nuclear infrastructure.

[Nitram]

30. A very reasonable assumption.

I guess I was just imagining the havoc that a strike on the mountain where testing takes place would cause in the region.

[Rollo]

31. China was concerned enough last week to give NK a stern warning...

...that further nuclear tests would cause a total collapse. The chinese are worried because the test mountain site is close to the China-NK border, and China likely would get some of the radioactive plume in the even of a catastrophic failure.

But it looks like the NK's are intending to keep up the nuclear testing there, hence the new tunnel.

There's speculation also that if things get further out of hand in NK, China may invade and stage a coup d'etat.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

21. Apparently this is under some question as it hasn't been confirmed by another source.

[Pauldg47]

22. The Telegraph is pretty reliable.. I read it elswhere too...

Bot dont remember the news source.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

23. Every article, including the Telegraph, is citing the original Asahi report.

So, sure, the Telegraph is accurate in reporting that Asahi reported that people died. But they didn't confirm anything independently.

[Pauldg47]

24. I think I understand...thanx.

[mitch96]

29. "Sources in North Korea told the news channel"

If NK is so tight how did the news get out??? I'm curious about the validity of the number of people killed or if it even happened....
Maybe some reporter want's to be "big man on campus"....
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