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North Korean Tragedy

  • 22-04-2004 8:26pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭


    From http://news.bbc.co.uk
    N Korea train blast 'kills many'

    Up to 3,000 people have been killed or injured in a huge explosion after two fuel trains collided in North Korea, reports say.

    The blast happened at Ryongchon station, 50km north of Pyongyang, South Korea's YTN television said.

    The incident reportedly happened nine hours after North Korean leader Kim Jong-il passed through the station on his way home from a visit to Beijing.

    Mr Kim had been in China to discuss North Korea's nuclear programme.

    South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the North Korean authorities had declared a state of emergency in the area and cut off all international telephone lines, apparently to stop news of the accident spreading.

    'Bombardment'

    The trains, carrying petrol and liquefied gas, crashed at about 1300 local time (0400 GMT), Yonhap said.

    The reports were based on information from unnamed Chinese sources near the border with North Korea, said news agencies.

    It was not possible to obtain independent confirmation of the number of casualties. North Korea is notoriously secretive and rarely reports its own accidents.


    "The station was destroyed as if hit by a bombardment and debris flew high into the sky," Yonhap quoted its sources as saying.

    The BBC's Kevin Kim in the South Korean capital, Seoul, says there are various theories about the explosion, including speculation that it may have been an assassination attempt against the North Korean leader.

    However, he says this has been dismissed by the South Korean authorities, who believe it was an accident


Comments

  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    such a horrible incident, and although there are theories, I cant see it being any more than coincidence that Jong-il was there only hours before....

    saying that, you never know, but it seems like such a huge disaster for an attempt at one mans life.

    Flogen


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭SeeYouJimmy


    bloody tight alright, supposedly Bush's minister for propaganda has offered them aid......probably in exchange for nuclear information though.....:/


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