In an interesting tangent, I have a "coffee table book" I received as a gift from the wife of a Finance Minister in Moscow with a photo of a perfectly round harbor that the USSR made using a nuke. Maybe the Norks used such a nice tool to merely clear a mountain inconveniently in the way for a hydro project, oh, and maybe make a few yield measurements too.

Any civil engineers out there that want to give an opinion on whether you'd ever want to demolish a mountain in a single blast as part of a hydro-electric project?

Maybe they used a nuclear bomb to save time in the hydroelectric project…I have heard that the North Koreans are quite brute.

It is very easy to know the truth….look in the photo satellite if the manpower is wearing NBC equipment… muahaha

well i am not an engineer but i will say that it is not right to blow up a side of a mountain with a nuclear bomb just think of all of the repucustions any one rember chonabal i think thats how it is spelt rember that that mushroom cloud went over poland and contaminated animals and such well just think were is that mushroom going or has gone and how many pepole are going to be afected it is not in any way right to do what they did and you know the sad thing about it is that no one can do anything its just really sad do any of you agree all i know is that nuclear bombs are very bad for the human race any one agree

Any links to satellite photos of the area? We got them pretty quickly for the train explosion...Or is there something else going on here?

Perhaps our CHinese friends decided to "discourage" the Kim family's missle and nuke ambitions. Any explanation on why we were so quick to discount that it was a nuke (despite the mushroom cloud) and why we have heard nothing since?

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