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2004-04-22 China-Japan-Koreas

Report: Thousands Dead or Injured in N.Korea Rail Blast

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Posted by JAB 2004-04-22 12:49:49 PM|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ouch. Since this is a fuel shipment, it's gotta HURT!

It's 30 miles from the border, which is a looooong way for sound to reach.

Posted by Ptah 2004-04-22 1:16:09 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2004-04-22 1:16:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 How often do trains collide killing thousands? Happened in Iran a while back, too. I think it was just hundreds there. This kind of thing always makes my spidey senses tingle, though they may need recalibrating.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-04-22 1:42:58 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-04-22 1:42:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Foxnews is reporting that Kim Jong was passing near 2 hours earlier and it was a possible assination. Also heard news a car bomb were also mentioned.

Posted by CobraCommander 2004-04-22 1:43:31 PM|| 2004-04-22 1:43:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 fix: 9 hours earlier, doesn't sound like an attempt on his life to me

Posted by CobraCommander 2004-04-22 1:46:09 PM|| 2004-04-22 1:46:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Cobra - Either that or North Korean Watches have a problem.

Synchronize your watches is a dicey proposition.

Posted by Anonymous4052 2004-04-22 1:49:35 PM|| 2004-04-22 1:49:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The North appears to have declared a type of emergency in the area.

A type of emergency : We sorta kinda got a problem here. There are sorta lots of people dead, and we can't tell anyone, so we have a type of emergency, which we can't say is an emergency, but it is a kinda sorta emergency of a particular type.

Posted by Anonymous4052 2004-04-22 1:52:44 PM|| 2004-04-22 1:52:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Angie, the article says liquified petroleum gas. (The radio report also said LNG.) Think super MOAB, and pity the poor souls nearby. Probably Kim had them empty the tracks when his train was on the line, and this is the result of hurrying to get everything back on schedule. Assuming the stories are accurate, of course...

Posted by James 2004-04-22 1:59:47 PM|| [http://www.idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2004-04-22 1:59:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 That big a bang should show-up on satilight photos.

Posted by raptor 2004-04-22 2:20:05 PM|| 2004-04-22 2:20:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Iran must have sold them the plans for that train bomb.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-22 2:39:51 PM|| 2004-04-22 2:39:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 raptor - know any sites where we could find that?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-04-22 4:47:16 PM|| 2004-04-22 4:47:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 "Thousands dead"? Countries downwind had better be checking their Geiger counters and readying their disaster plans in case this is a radioactive "type of emergency"

Posted by Tresho 2004-04-22 5:47:12 PM|| 2004-04-22 5:47:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Latest version of rooters story includes this little nugget:

"In Washington, a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity said: "There clearly was a large explosion there of some sort."

So, something happened.

Odd that Axis of Evil rail service is so unreliable.

Posted by JAB 2004-04-22 7:36:24 PM|| 2004-04-22 7:36:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Kim does travel by train, which to me makes me wonder how hes managed to live this long, since trains are hardly easy to hide and take a long time to get to their destination and they cant really change their route. Once you confirm that the little root-weavil is on the train, its time to call in the JDAM's.

Posted by Frank Martin 2004-04-22 7:37:42 PM|| 2004-04-22 7:37:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 There clearly was a large explosion there of some sort

And. . . ??????

Posted by Anonymous4052 2004-04-22 7:47:41 PM|| 2004-04-22 7:47:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Has Radio North Korea on the short-wave started to play funeral music yet, or are they still talking about Kim's praise for the inept collective rice-patty?

Anybody got access to a shortwave?

Does someone stream it on the web?

Posted by Anonymous4052 2004-04-22 7:50:47 PM|| 2004-04-22 7:50:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 There were rumors the fuel was a ~~warning~~ gift from China to Kim and his energy-starved country, Yonhap said.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-22 8:12:37 PM|| 2004-04-22 8:12:37 PM|| Front Page Top

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