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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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DeepBlue, I owe you an apology- I thought your 'UN going in' statement was a little crazy, but-
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...He said Ambassador Pak Gil Yon officially requested UN help yesterday. A UN mission, accompanied by several aid agencies, is expected to arrive at the disaster site today to assess humanitarian needs and offer immediate support, UN spokesman Fred Eckhard said.
Initial reports described a collision but aid workers said North Korean officials blamed an electrical accident with a train carrying explosives.
"What they've said is that two carriages of a train carrying dynamite -- they were trying to disconnect the carriages and link them up to another train," Anne O'Mahony, regional director for the Irish aid agency Concern, told Irish radio station RTE from Pyongyang.
"They got caught in the overhead electric wiring, the dynamite exploded and that was the cause of the explosion," she said.
The explosion destroyed 1,850 apartments or houses and damaged 6,350, said John Sparrow, a Red Cross spokesman in China, citing officials in the North.
The Red Cross reported at least 54 people killed and 1,249 injured, but Sparrow said "We are anticipating that the casualty figures will increase." |
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Holyjoe
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: Away for a cuppa
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| Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 7:10 am Post subject: |
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Yonhap have a wealth of pictures that they say are from the scene of the accident:
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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Did I just read that sign right? Is that a school that got blown away??
Gosh, I'm sure it killed a lot of kids. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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Yes you did. Yes it is. Yes it did.
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| North Korean officials said the explosion at a railway station in Ryongchon, a city near China's border, killed at least 154 people and injured 1,300, Red Cross official Jay Matta said by phone from a nearby town. Half of the dead were children, killed when their school was destroyed. |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: Kuwait
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| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Leslie Cheswyck wrote: |
| This is going to put a huge dent in their tourist industry. |
funny guy |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Butterfly wrote: |
| Leslie Cheswyck wrote: |
| This is going to put a huge dent in their tourist industry. |
funny guy |
Tell me you didn't smile when you read that! |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Which part is funny, "dent" or "tourist industry"? |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| kangnamdragon wrote: |
| Which part is funny, "dent" or "tourist industry"? |
"tourist industry". |
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rok_the-boat
Joined: 24 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, why would fuel be leaving North Korea? |
I remember the first time South Korea sent 300,000 tons of rice to the North - four or five years ago or so. Three months later, I read a report that NK sold 300,000 tons of rice to China. The media failed to make the link.
All those aid boxes going to the North? They'll probably be stripped apart and repackaged and sold back to the South sometime later! The only thing the crazy dictator probably worries about is his oil and dynamite/gunpowder that blew up - I wonder - was it really leaving NK? If so, who was buying it? |
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rok_the-boat
Joined: 24 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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| kangnamdragon wrote: |
Yes, why would fuel be leaving North Korea? |
I remember the first time South Korea sent 300,000 tons of rice to the North - four or five years ago or so. Three months later, I read a report that NK sold 300,000 tons of rice to China. The media failed to make the link.
All those aid boxes going to the North? They'll probably be stripped apart and repackaged and sold back to the South sometime later! The only thing the crazy dictator probably worries about is his oil and dynamite/gunpowder that blew up - I wonder - was it really leaving NK? If so, who was buying it? |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: Kuwait
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Toby wrote: |
| Butterfly wrote: |
| Leslie Cheswyck wrote: |
| This is going to put a huge dent in their tourist industry. |
funny guy |
Tell me you didn't smile when you read that! |
I didn't smile when I read that. |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Butterfly wrote: |
| Toby wrote: |
| Butterfly wrote: |
| Leslie Cheswyck wrote: |
| This is going to put a huge dent in their tourist industry. |
funny guy |
Tell me you didn't smile when you read that! |
I didn't smile when I read that. |
I did. |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| rok_the-boat wrote: |
| I remember the first time South Korea sent 300,000 tons of rice to the North - four or five years ago or so. Three months later, I read a report that NK sold 300,000 tons of rice to China. The media failed to make the link. |
It's also worth noting that a sizable percentage of the fertilizer that used to be given to North Korea from South Korea ended up being turned into munitions instead. |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: Kuwait
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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Well I suppose I'm being all silly, I guess in the right context, lots of dead children can be a real laugh. |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Butterfly wrote: |
Well I suppose I'm being all silly, I guess in the right context, lots of dead children can be a real laugh. |
I laughed at the sentence on it's own. Not at the death and injury that it had caused.
Dead children are never funny. I may teach in a hakwon but I am not that much of a heartless b#stard. |
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