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Title: Thousands Dead in North Korea
Post by: 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
Title: Thousands Dead in North Korea
Post by: texace 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.
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Post by: NUKE 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.
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Post by: Sixpence 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
Title: Thousands Dead in North Korea
Post by: NUKE on April 22, 2004, 10:49:53 PM: Quote
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...
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Post by: Sixpence on April 22, 2004, 10:57:29 PM: Quote
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.
Title: Thousands Dead in North Korea
Post by: JBA on April 22, 2004, 11:29:48 PM: Must be the aid Clinton gave them.:aok
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Post by: Sixpence on April 22, 2004, 11:33:19 PM: Quote
Originally posted by JBA
Must be the aid Clinton gave them.:aok

I thought the current administration did the same thing? Write them out a check to keep them in check.
Title: Thousands Dead in North Korea
Post by: DiabloTX on April 23, 2004, 05:42:31 AM: Red Cross - 54 dead.
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Post by: Nilsen on April 23, 2004, 06:08:16 AM: heard about this accident yesterday....very sad indeed :(
Title: Thousands Dead in North Korea
Post by: Mickey1992 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.

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Title: Thousands Dead in North Korea
Post by: mosgood on April 23, 2004, 08:09:39 AM: Quote
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.
QUOTE]

Why? They were probably hoping the U.S. humanitarian aid package, for the 3000 supposudly killed, would get there before the truth got out.
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Post by: Ripsnort on April 23, 2004, 08:21:05 AM: Quote
Originally posted by mosgood
Quote
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.
QUOTE]

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! ;)
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Post by: Sixpence on April 23, 2004, 08:23:19 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Ripsnort
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.
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Post by: Ripsnort 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?
Title: Thousands Dead in North Korea
Post by: Otto on April 23, 2004, 09:45:09 AM: Now they're saying Dynimite. Make's more sense. There dosen't seem to be much of a fire.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3651705.stm
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Post by: Ike 2K# on April 23, 2004, 10:15:04 AM: 3000???
:eek:
This ranks as #1 of world's worst rail disasters
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Post by: texace on April 23, 2004, 12:31:42 PM: Maybe, Ike, but 3,000 people did not die.

:aok
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Post by: Steve on April 23, 2004, 12:49:59 PM: I was wondering how in the heck 3000 people die from a train wreck.
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Post by: Ripsnort on April 23, 2004, 12:59:11 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Steve
I was wondering how in the heck 3000 people die from a train wreck.

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Post by: lazs2 on April 23, 2004, 01:26:40 PM: socialists allways find the truth a little too constraining.

lazs
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Post by: midnight Target on April 23, 2004, 02:36:02 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Ike 2K#
3000???
:eek:
This ranks as #1 of world's worst rail disasters

No, it's the #1 most over-rated rail disaster.
Title: Thousands Dead in North Korea
Post by: capt. apathy on April 23, 2004, 04:01:57 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Steve
I was wondering how in the heck 3000 people die from a train wreck.

it's amazing the count is so low (somewhere in the 50's seems a little hard to believe)

reports from red cross workers say it leveled houses and apartments within 500yds of the blast. also that there where 500 travelers and employees in the station.

If all of these reports are true, it's a miracle it's not much higher
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Post by: JBA on April 24, 2004, 11:32:39 PM: Quote

Why? They were probably hoping the U.S. humanitarian aid package, for the 3000 supposudly killed, would get there before the truth got out. [/B]

:aok
Title: Thousands Dead in North Korea
Post by: moot on April 25, 2004, 05:27:34 AM: fisherman across the chinese border said he saw, heard and felt the blast. "like a nuclear explosion"