Author Topic: Thousands Dead in North Korea (Read 779 times)

strk · « **on:** April 22, 2004, 10:26:23 PM »

Anyone hear about this? 2 trains loaded with fuel collide and explode. They are saying that there are over 3,000 dead. Kim Jong (did I get that right? its late) was supposedly at the station just hours before.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33814-2004Apr22.html

texace · « **Reply #1 on:** April 22, 2004, 10:33:58 PM »

Are you going to blame this on Bush, too?

I heard about this...kinda wondering how the two trains wound up on the same rail.

NUKE · « **Reply #2 on:** April 22, 2004, 10:40:22 PM »

Yeah I heard about it this afternoon. The N Koreans shut down thier nation's phone lines to the outside and are trying to keep the details secret.

Sixpence · « **Reply #3 on:** April 22, 2004, 10:43:42 PM »

If they would spend the money on infrastructure instead of nuclear weapons, maybe it wouldn't have happened. That rail line was laid by the Japanese during the occupation over 60 years ago.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20040423/ap_on_re_as/nkorea_train_explosion_11

NUKE · « **Reply #4 on:** April 22, 2004, 10:49:53 PM »

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Originally posted by texace
Are you going to blame this on Bush, too?

I heard about this...kinda wondering how the two trains wound up on the same rail.

well.... Kim, their leader, did travel through the same area by train 9 hours earlier by train on the same line while returning from China. Maybe a plot to kill him would not be so far fetched...

Sixpence · « **Reply #5 on:** April 22, 2004, 10:57:29 PM »

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Originally posted by NUKE
well.... Kim, their leader, did travel through the same area by train 9 hours earlier by train on the same line while returning from China. Maybe a plot to kill him would not be so far fetched...

It was the bogus software Reagan sold them.

JBA · « **Reply #6 on:** April 22, 2004, 11:29:48 PM »

Must be the aid Clinton gave them.

Sixpence · « **Reply #7 on:** April 22, 2004, 11:33:19 PM »

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Must be the aid Clinton gave them.

I thought the current administration did the same thing? Write them out a check to keep them in check.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #8 on:** April 23, 2004, 05:42:31 AM »

Red Cross - 54 dead.

Nilsen · « **Reply #9 on:** April 23, 2004, 06:08:16 AM »

heard about this accident yesterday....very sad indeed

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 23, 2004, 08:04:19 AM »

150 dead. It seems that NK could have stopped the "3000 dead" rumor straight away if they would not clamp down the whole county when stuff like this happens.

mosgood · « **Reply #11 on:** April 23, 2004, 08:09:39 AM »

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150 dead. It seems that NK could have stopped the "3000 dead" rumor straight away if they would not clamp down the whole county when stuff like this happens.
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Why? They were probably hoping the U.S. humanitarian aid package, for the 3000 supposudly killed, would get there before the truth got out.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #12 on:** April 23, 2004, 08:21:05 AM »

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Originally posted by Mickey1992
150 dead. It seems that NK could have stopped the "3000 dead" rumor straight away if they would not clamp down the whole county when stuff like this happens.
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Why? They were probably hoping the U.S. humanitarian aid package, for the 3000 supposudly killed, would get there before the truth got out.

Yeah, they are an honest communist country, after all, Clinton admin gave them nuclear power plants in exchange for promises not to build nuclear weapons!

Sixpence · « **Reply #13 on:** April 23, 2004, 08:23:19 AM »

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Yeah, they are an honest communist country, after all, Clinton admin gave them nuclear power plants in exchange for promises not to build nuclear weapons!

Yeah, and if the idiots didn't start up their nuclear weapons program again, the current administration would still be sending them welfare checks.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #14 on:** April 23, 2004, 08:29:05 AM »

Say, speaking of accidents-waiting-to-happen, who is downwind of NK's nuke facilities, say, within 3000 miles?