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04/22/2004 Archived Entry: "Tragic."
Tragic.
Hard to imagine an explosion this big.
Up to 3,000 people were killed or injured when two trains loaded with fuel collided and exploded at a North Korean station Thursday, hours after leader Kim Jong-il had passed through, South Korea's YTN television said.YTN quoted witnesses in its report while South Korea's Yonhap news agency, which spoke of widespread destruction, also said there were thousands of casualties. Neither Yonhap nor YTN gave a breakdown of deaths and injuries.
Yonhap quoted sources in the Chinese city of Dandong that borders the North as saying the explosion occurred around 1 p.m. -- nine hours after Kim's special train was reported to have passed on its way back to Pyongyang after a visit to China.
"The station was destroyed as if hit by a bombardment and debris flew high into the sky," Yonhap said, quoting the unidentified Chinese sources.
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yeah, when i woke up this morning the news was pushing the "attempted assination" angle, but then they shut the hell up about it. lets just hope the CIA had nothing to do with this, or we could be looking at a nuclear (NUKULAR, in case any republicans are reading) war!
Posted by justin @ 04/22/2004 01:58 PM NY
I have my doubts - the story says Kim was there nine hours earlier.
If it was an attempted assassination, the assassins have the worst timing I've ever seen.
Posted by editor @ 04/22/2004 02:17 PM NY
yeah, i dont actually buy it either. im just always happy to float a good conspiracy theory.
its interesting how coincidental things are most of the time though.
im not religious, or superstitious, so i have to either chalk everything up to coincidence, or to more sinister human motives.
Posted by justin @ 04/22/2004 02:48 PM NY
I wouldn't put away the conspiracy theories quite yet. Kim Jong Il DID come through this same train station; he doesn't fly and travels ONLY by train (in a special bulletproof car given to his father by Stalin, I saw in another article on this explosion.) And railroad accidents are VERY rare in N.Korea because all the lines are so antiquated trains move very slowly. Kim could have been running behind schedule.....
This line is the main route from Pyongyang to Beijing, so anybody who knew he was going to China would have known where to aim.
And there is nothing SHORT of a nuclear bomb that would create as much damage as exploding cars full of liquified petroleum gas. Wouldn't be surprised to hear this showed up on seismographs.
Just my contribution to the Tinfoil Hat Club for today. :)
Posted by Xan @ 04/22/2004 03:47 PM NY
Speaking of conspiracy theories anyone know how credible this source is - http://www.letsroll911.org
Posted by Jeff S @ 04/22/2004 04:21 PM NY
If you follow the links, especially the ones about the from the scientific community and the one where it was impossible that a 757 hit the Pentagon, I think it all is credible.
Posted by gammarock @ 04/23/2004 02:07 AM NY
its beginning to get re-goddamn-diculous... you cant even trust your own eyes anymore. if "make love not war" was the catch phrase for the late 60's - early 70's, and "greed is good" was the catch phrase for the 80's, then the phrase for the post american century will definately be "trust no one, believe nothing, question everything". or maybe just shorten it down to something catchy, like "watch your back"...
Posted by justin @ 04/23/2004 10:26 AM NY
