150 dead. Yeah right. I think we will never find out how many people got killed.
Just another fuckup of a socialist workers paradise.

The Norks are supposed to have a huge army with tens of thousands of artillery tubes pointed at Seoul, underground airports and who knows what else. Surely they have the manpower and equipment to quickly sort this out.

Anybody out there buying the official reason given for the explosion? In my humble opinion, if you were close enough to observe a rail wagon making contact with overhead electric cables, well, you are dead! This has to have been an assassination attempt, probably averted by Kim's security detail in which an earlier train was taken after the planting of some disinformation about his itinerary. The Great Leader lives on!

First Iran then North Korea. Funny how trains seem to blow up along the old Axis of Evil. Maybe these societies aren't quite as closed as they'd like to think they are.

My Chinese contacts are inclined to believe that it was an inside job. Disaffected officers may have staged a spectacular assasination attempt. Watch for any signs of purging that would reinforce this theory.

This UK paper points to a collision between ferterizer cars and oil cars with a spark thrown in for good measure. Seems likely to me, as likely as Okahoma City being an accident.

I doubt if we will ever know the real story.

Dynamite if improperly cared for can "sweat" and become unstable. The sweat is nitroglycerine leaking out of it.

Now I also read elsewhere about LNG. LNG would make a heck of a blast.

Would the assassination of Kim Il Sung do it? I've often thought he was just a figure head kept in place by a group of generals.

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