Word is reportedly seeping out of North Korea that a tunnel collapse in a mountain test facility following the country’s sixth nuclear test in early September has killed more than 200 people.
Japanese channel Asahi TV cites North Korean sources as saying that the deadly collapse took place in October during the construction of an underground tunnel at the Punggye-ri key nuke test facility at Mt. Mantap, which is about 80km from the Chinese border.
The geology of the test site was said to have been badly disturbed by the explosion of what’s believed to be a 100-kiloton hydrogen device said to be seven times more powerful than the A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
Asahi TV said about 100 workers were initially trapped underground during the cave-in. A group sent to rescue them was buried in another collapse, killing a total of about 200.
International seismologists have reported a series of small earthquakes at Mt. Mantap since the underground detonation on September 3.
If true, the ill-fated attempt to construct a new tunnel at the site hints that North Korean authorities are unwilling to abandon the site and disrupt their nuke weapons program.
38 North, a respected specialist website on North Korea, said in an analysis last month that the Mt. Mantap test site is unlikely to be abandoned. It noted that earth disturbances at the site are consistent with those that have taken place at other underground test sites outside Korea and are manageable.
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Geology and Geophysics reportedly warned a North Korean delegation in Beijing late last month about an implosion at the Punggye-ri nuclear facility.
I can help to calm USA and Northkorea if they need my help
Well, anything that goes around comes around. North Korea is just trying tell the other nuclear powered countries that even poor countries, like the Philippines, maybe, can produce the menace called NUCLEAR BOMB and give the Americans the same kind level of terror it applies on poor countries like ours.
God bless Philipines!!!!
Manny the United States have been allies with the Philippines for years and years, if you remember they were the ones that freed the Philippine people from the Japanese in WWII, I live in the Philippines and I love this country and it’s people. Please don’t try and justify anything North Korea does.
God Bless President Duterte and President Trump. Two great men that loves their country.
Simply karma
North Korea is a threat to the whole Asian region. Pray that we will be kept safe….I hope this won’t go any further to causing a war
That is terrible..i hope this will served a lesson to them..
Well Said James Monroe. I am here in Zambales with your thoughts. God Bless President Duterte and President Trump. Two great men that loves their country.
didnt the Americans save your country from the japanese??….you’d still be slaves to the japs if it wasnt for the allied forces …like my father who served in the philippines….
its also true that the americans broke the armistice treaty…UN brokered …to end the Korean war by installing nuclear weapons in what became south korea
Stephen Henderson Yeah? And you treated our women like whores and called them LBFM? In the Treaty of Paris, Spain ceded Philippines to the US and from then on we were treated like slaves.