S.Korea says there was no big blast in N.Korea

[JoFerret]

What to make of this?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&e=6&u=/nm/korea_north_blast_dc
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Seismic signals and strange cloud formations picked up last week were not from an explosion, vice minister of unification, Rhee Bong-jo, told reporters.

Initial reports had even suggested a nuclear test could have been responsible for a mushroom cloud spotted over the North.

Foreign diplomats who visited on Thursday what they were told was the site of a mysterious explosion in North Korea said it was a hydroelectric project under construction. South Korea said they had been in the wrong place.

South Korea said the diplomats had been about 60 miles away from the suspected location in remote Kimhyungjik county on the Chinese border. But the story became even more convoluted when Rhee said there had been no blast at all.


"There is no information to support an explosion in the area where there were indications of an explosion," Rhee said.

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[Blayde Starrfyre]

1. Man, and I thought * reminded me of 1984

So, the seismic activity and huge mushroom cloud visible from satellites WASN'T an explosion?

:wtf:

[smirkymonkey]

2. Nope, move along now...nothing to see here.

:evilgrin:

It may not have been nuclear, but it wasn't just a wok fire, either.

South Korea reported this? Hmmm.....

[PATRICK]

3. Lying liars

Weird how one has to correct another for fear that the lie wasn't good enough. The ministry of unification says it all.

The main story is that the US with all the space spying technology(just for one thing) to verify the story IS NOT TRUSTED at all for verification. This assumption has caused a cascade of pathetic soothing denials while- in the vacuum that is US diplomacy here- has lost focus and credibility to the point of the best cover story of all. The murk of absurdity.

[LostInAnomie]

4. Seismic signals and a two mile wide mushroom cloud, but no explosion?

Either they are full of shit or someone let the biggest fart of all time.

[allemand]

5. Signs Indicate No Explosion Occurred in N. Korea's Kim Hyong-jik County

"The Korea Earthquake Research Center said, "On Aug. 21, we detected seismic waves of 2.7 on the Richter scale from the Samsu region of Ryanggang County, but after that, the only record we have of seismic waves from the whole of Ryanggang Province were seismic waves we detected at 11:24 p.m. Sept. 8 from the Mt. Baekdu area, about 100~120km away from the suspected blast site."

Because of this, government officials explain that it was only natural that the Arirang 1 satellite would fail to detect signs of an explosion when it succeeded in taking photographs of Kim Hyong-jik County, Ryanggang Province on Wednesday.

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On Aug. 21, seismic waves measuring 2.7 on the Richter scale were detected coming from the Samsu region, which has been designated by the North Korean authorities at the site of the Samsu Hydroelectic Power Station."

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200409/200409170025.html

[Maddy McCall]

6. The crater that was visible from satellites?

Hmmm...something smells funny.

[rooboy]

7. "How was your meeting with the Mets?"

"Meeting? There was no meeting. But it was quite a meeting."

[tlcandie]

8. With all their fancy spy stuff and being able to tell all that info

about Iraq's elusive WMD.. pauses to snicker...., yet now they can't even tell about an explosion...really makes you go :wow: !

[Moderator]

9. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x833282