April 24th 04, 06:36 AM
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Frank White wrote:
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Apparently a South Korean news agency has reported that two
gasoline loaded trains have collided in North Korea, killing
thousands and leveling an entire town. Radio Exterior de
Espana noted that there has been no independent confirmation
of this. NBC News (US) has reported that it was near the
border with China and that phone lines between NK and China
have been cut in order to prevent info from getting out. I
don't have my Yaesu hokked up so I can't tune around and see
what others are saying. What's Radio Korea Intl (NOT VoK,
but South Korea) reporting? Anybody hear anything?
The BBC was airing initial reports within minutes. True,
those reports were mainly "There may have been a massive
disaster, but NK has cut all communication"; but they were on
it.
And they stayed on it through the day, providing details as
they got them while digging up background like interviews
with reporters familiar with North Korea and its
determination to control all information going in and out of
the country; a talk with the head of a civilian satellite
imaging company who was unable to talk about what might have
happened yesterday (since the satellites weren't in position
to see such immediate details) but COULD talk about how
previous scans showed that the railway station was a rabbit
warren of interconnecting, converging tracks and it would be
easy for trains to run into each other there (and that huge
numbers of houses were right there besides the tracks); a
discussion of how the NK railroad system is the SAME one set
up by the Japanese more than 60 years ago when they held
Korea as a colonial possession and is in terrible shape, but
is the NK government's main means of transport because it's
all they've got that runs...
The BBC's coverage was VERY informative!
And on the flip side, I notice that US domestic shortwave
braodcasters - the looney tune section - are already
insisting it was really an accidental nuke detonation the
North Koreans are trying to disguise as an conventional
accident...
FW
CBS (US) is reporting this morning that the trains were filled
with dynamite and that they ran into a downed live power line,
thus touching off the explosion.
Major Disaster! And just as the Soviets did, the North Koreans
are doing.
First, they cut external communications.
Next, they floated a story about a gasoline and fuel oil
explosion.
When that didn't fly, it became a gasoline and LP gas explosion.
When that didn't fly, it suddenly became a dynamite train
explosion.
However, several sources say that it was a trainload of rocket
fuel, which they got from our supposed friends, the Chinese.
If that finally turns out to be the fact....well gee...it's a
shame that blew up.
Where did you hear the rocket fuel story? On shortwave? Just
curious.
But we'll probably never know exactly what it was. Explosive fuels,
by their nature, are self obliterating. And North Korea is the most
reclusive country on earth. But whatever caused it, it was BIG, big
enough to force the North Koreans to turn to the Red Cross for
help. That indicates a whole train filled with SOMETHING explosive.
WWL-AM mentioned it while I was on my way to work this morning.
Nobody else has mentioned it so I will.
Maybe the Red Cross should bring some geiger counter with them.
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Telamon
Ventura, California
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