North Korean nuclear crisis

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North Korea may consider H-bomb test in Pacific, Kim calls Trump 'deranged'






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SEOUL/NEW YORK (Reuters) - North Korea said on Friday it might test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean after President Donald Trump vowed to destroy the reclusive country, with leader Kim Jong Un promising to make Trump pay dearly for his threats.

Kim did not specify what action he would take against the United States or Trump, whom he called a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard” in the latest bout of insults the two leaders have traded.

South Korea said it was the first direct statement of its kind by a North Korean leader. However, Kim’s foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, said North Korea could consider a hydrogen bomb test of an unprecedented scale over the Pacific Ocean. Ri told reporters in New York he did not know Kim’s exact thoughts.

Japan, the only country ever to suffer an atomic attack, described the threat as “totally unacceptable”.

The U.S. president, who has not shrunk from fighting fire with fire in his rhetoric on North Korea, sent another message Friday on Twitter.

“Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn’t mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before,” Trump said, a day after announcing additional sanctions on Pyongyang.

Trump said in his first address to the United Nations on Tuesday he would “totally destroy” North Korea, a country of 26 million people, if it threatened the United States and its allies, and called Kim a “rocket man” on a suicide mission.

Kim said the North would consider the “highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history” against the United States and that Trump’s comments had confirmed his own nuclear program was “the correct path”.

Pyongyang conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test on Sept. 3 and has launched dozens of missiles this year as it accelerates a program aimed at enabling it to target the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile.

“I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire,” Kim said in the statement on the KCNA state news agency.

Asked about the North Korean hydrogen bomb threat, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told ABC that diplomatic efforts will continue but all military options were still on the table.

“We are quite challenged” with the escalating rhetoric, he said, but hoped increased sanctions and “voices from every corner of the world” would help lead Kim to talks.

A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the United States is taking Kim’s threat seriously. Such a test would be a “game-changer” if North Korea actually did it, the official said.

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North Korea says Donald Trump has declared war'
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North Korea's foreign minister said US President Donald Trump has "declared war" on his country and threatened to shoot down US jets in international airspace.

Ri Yong Ho said the "declaration of war" meant North Korea could target US bombers.

He said: "The question of who won't be around much longer will be answered then."

That was a reference to Mr Trump's recent indication on Twitter that the North Korean foreign minister, and leader Kim Jong-un "won't be around much longer".

Speaking outside a hotel in New York Mr Ri said: "Trump claimed our leadership would not be around much longer. He declared a war on our country."

"All the member states (of the United Nations) and the whole world should clearly remember it was the United States that first declared war on our country.


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KIM'S DISASTER
North Korea nuclear base COLLAPSES ‘killing at least 200 people’ amid fears of massive radioactive leak


The collapse happened at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in the country's north-east on October 10, according to reports


By Tom Michael
31st October 2017, 1:03 pm
Updated: 31st October 2017, 1:35 pm

43 COMMENTS

A TUNNEL at an underground North Korea nuclear site has collapsed with up to 200 people killed, according to reports.

The collapse happened at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in the north-east of the country on October 10, according to Japan’s TV Asahi.



THE SUN
The Punggye-ri test site in North Korea is carved deep into Mount Mantap, as these file images show




The disaster has prompted fears of a massive radioactive leak which could spark a Chernobyl- or Fukushima-style disaster.

A North Korean official said the collapse happened during the construction of an underground tunnel, South Korea’s Yonhapnews agency reports.

Some 100 people are said to have been trapped by the initial tunnel collapse, with a further 100 lost in a second collapse during a rescue operation, Asahi reported Tuesday.




Lee Eugene, a spokeswoman at South Korea’s unification ministry, said: “We are aware of the report but do not know anything about it.”

The accident is believed to have been caused by Kim Joing-un’s sixth nuclear test which weakened the mountain, according to the report.



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The mountain where the test site is hidden is seen before the last nuclear test
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Satellite images show Mount Mantap pock-marked with craters from landslides after the last nuclear test
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A close-up of a subsidence crater show scarring from landslides after the tests
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Another image shows where the nuclear tests are believed to have taken place
It was reported earlier this year that the mountain under which the base is believed to be hidden was at risk of collapsing and leaking radiation into the region.

Experts said if the peak crumbles, clouds of radioactive dust and gas would blanket the region, the South China Morning Post reported.

The Punggye-ri test site is carved deep into the side of Mount Mantap.

Geophysicist Wen Lianxing and his team at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui province, said they were “confident” underground detonations were occurring underneath the mountain.

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A satellite image taken on April 12, 2017 of a North Korean Punggye-ri test site
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North Korea state media celebrates its missile capability
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Satellite images show the area around North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site
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Punggye-ri is seen in commercial satellite imagery taken April 12, 2017
They posted an analysis of data collected from more than 100 seismic monitoring sites across China.

This has narrowed down the location of Pyongyang’s nuclear tests with a margin of error of just 100m. They’ve all been under the same mountain.

Seismic data showed the underground test triggered an earthquake of magnitude 6.3, around ten times more powerful than the fifth test a year ago.



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Pyongyang released pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with what state media said was a new type of hydrogen bomb
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Satellite images showed the blast caused numerous landslides around the Punggye-ri test site, according to the Washington-based 38 North monitoring project.

But Chinese nuclear weapons researcher and chair of the China Nuclear Society Wang Naiyan told the Morning Post a collapse could spark a major environmental disaster.

He said: “We call it ‘taking the roof off’. If the mountain collapses and the hole is exposed, it will let out many bad things.

“A 100 kiloton bomb is a relatively large bomb. The North Korean government should stop the tests as they pose a huge threat not only to North Korea but to other countries, especially China.”






North Korea's Kim Jong Un celebrates with scientists after nuclear tests

Satellite photos taken just a day after the blast reveal new gravel and scree fields shaken loose by the blasts at an elevation of about 2205m.

Analysts said these appeared more numerous and widespread than those caused by previous detonations — which would be in keeping with the increased size of the bomb.

Wang said there are limited mountains in North Korea that are “suitable” to conduct a nuclear test.

He said if the North had simply drilled into the side of the mountain, this increased the risk of “blowing the top off”.

News of the tunnel collapse comes after it emerged Russia and the US have both flown nuclear bombers near the country as tensions grow over Kim’s nuke threats.




Why did North Korea test its H-bomb underground?





Nuclear devices are often tested underground to prevent radioactive material released in the explosion reaching the surface and contaminating the environment.

This method also ensures a degree of secrecy.

The release of radiation from an underground nuclear explosion – an effect known as “venting” – would give away clues to the technical composition and size of a country’s device.

How exactly does the underground test work?





A test site is carefully geologically surveyed to ensure suitability – usually in a place well away from population centres.

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Wow, it took 20 days to come out.

North Korea nuclear crisis ALERT: Radioactive cloud 'to ENGULF hemisphere,' warns China

Chinese geologists today warned their North Korea counterparts that the Punggye-ri underground nuclear facility may collapse if future tests are carried out at the same location.

Experts claimed future testing might "blow the top off the mountain," spreading radioactive waste through the wind and cracks created during the implosion.

And they suggested the deadly radiation cloud could spread across the entire hemisphere sparking a major global disaster.

The dangerously high levels of radiation could kill thousands or even millions - perhaps not instantly, but over the following weeks, months and years.

GETTY

All of North Korea's nuclear tests have been conducted near the same mountain

A researcher at the country's Peking University, said: “China cannot sit and wait until the site implodes.

“Our instruments can detect nuclear fallout when it arrives, but it will be too late by then.

“There will be public panic and anger at the government for not taking action.”

READ MORE: Hundreds dead at North Korea's nuclear missile testing facility after tunnel collapse

Lan Xiaoqing, a researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics Associate, said: “The fallout can spread to an entire hemisphere.”




North Korean leader Kim Jong Un provides guidance on a nuclear weapons program in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency


The fallout can spread to an entire hemisphere

Lan Xiaoqing, researcher

All of North Korea's nuclear tests have been conducted at the Punggye-ri test site - which is built into Mount Mantap.

While the exact locations of the nuclear tests themselves remain a mystery, seismologists believe they can pinpoint it to a 100-metre area.

While a test site could be operated safely at such a location, unsophisticated engineers are believed to have increased the risk of disaster with crude drilling techniques.

Punggye-ri was also the site of North Korea’s sixth-ever nuclear test on September 3, which caused a huge earthquake and sparked a series of smaller tremors and landslides ever since.

Foreign experts and human rights activists had warned this month of the danger of despot Kim Jong-un’s crumbling facilities.

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North Korea's September 3 nuclear test sparked an earthquake
GETTY

North Korea could cause the collapse of its own nuclear facility
On Monday South Korea warned another nuclear test at the site could lead to a total collapse of the mountain facility, causing a deadly leak of radioactive materials.

And today it was revealed today that around 100 people were killed when an unfinished tunnel collapsed at North Korea’s Punggye-ri facility.

Another group of around 100 people subsequently died while attempting to rescue the entombed workers.

The disaster was revealed by Japan’s TV Asahi today, although they could not clarify when the accident and subsequent doomed rescue attempts took place.

They said North Korean sources told them the collapse occurred as workers were working on the new tunnel. A second collapse took place as workers tried to rescue their colleagues.

GETTY

North Korea news: A satellite image of the Punggye-ri facility
READ MORE: Will North Korea conduct another nuclear test?

The collapse is seen as evidence the September 3 test destabilised the mountainside facility after North Korea tested a huge 100-kiloton explosive which was around seven times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during WW2.

Paul Richards, a seismologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said: “What we are seeing from North Korea looks like some kind of stress in the ground.

"In that part of the world, there were stresses in the ground, but the explosions have shaken them up."

North Korea has not engaged in any missile or nuclear provocations since mid-September.

38 NORHT - AIRBUS DEFENSE

North Korea is continuing to develop its nuclear arsenal

But chilling satellite photos suggest North Korea could be ready to launch another nuclear test with no warning the moment crackpot leader Kim Jong-un decides to push to the button.

Grainy images of the Nampo Naval shipyard on the hermit kingdom’s west coast show Kim is continuing to work on his second barge so his navy can carry out underwater test missile launches.

The 68ft barge is identical to another seen at the Sinpo South shipyard on the east coast which has been involved in up to six test launches since 2014.

According to 38 North, which monitors North Korea, it could suggest the hermit state is expanding the submarine-launched ballistic missile and development programme to the west coast.

Experts believe the aerial images of the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Facility also show a central ring that is used to support a missile launch tube during testing.

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If the radioactive leak reaches global level endangering neighboring countries, it will give a good reason/excuse to bomb the shit out of North Korea.
Poor north korean people. Both South Korea and China might get affected.
 
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Idiot Kim Jong Un has now crossed the rubicon.
Time to annihilate North Korea.
 

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Idiot Kim Jong Un has now crossed the rubicon.
Time to annihilate North Korea.
World War 3 is just around the corner..........

Don't believe it? You better believe it.........

world economic recession 1907 - Panic of 1907, a U.S. economic recession with bank failures - resulted in World War 1 1914-1919

world economic recession 2029 - Wall Street Crash of 1929 and Great Depression (1929–1939) the worst depression of modern history - resulted in World War 2 1939-1945

world economic recession 2008 - Subprime mortgage crisis (US)(2007-2010) - would result in World War 3 date 2017- ????

Every time there was a huge economic crises it ended in world war after 7-10 years, Last crises was in 2008 it is 9 years since then...............
 

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WW3 is not going to happen. Because it will not be just a direct war, proxy war will continue for years to come. USA is afraid of the weapon it has created - terrorism.
 

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KIM'S DISASTER
North Korea nuclear base COLLAPSES ‘killing at least 200 people’ amid fears of massive radioactive leak


The collapse happened at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in the country's north-east on October 10, according to reports


By Tom Michael
31st October 2017, 1:03 pm
Updated: 31st October 2017, 1:35 pm

43 COMMENTS

A TUNNEL at an underground North Korea nuclear site has collapsed with up to 200 people killed, according to reports.

The collapse happened at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in the north-east of the country on October 10, according to Japan’s TV Asahi.



THE SUN
The Punggye-ri test site in North Korea is carved deep into Mount Mantap, as these file images show




The disaster has prompted fears of a massive radioactive leak which could spark a Chernobyl- or Fukushima-style disaster.

A North Korean official said the collapse happened during the construction of an underground tunnel, South Korea’s Yonhapnews agency reports.

Some 100 people are said to have been trapped by the initial tunnel collapse, with a further 100 lost in a second collapse during a rescue operation, Asahi reported Tuesday.




Lee Eugene, a spokeswoman at South Korea’s unification ministry, said: “We are aware of the report but do not know anything about it.”

The accident is believed to have been caused by Kim Joing-un’s sixth nuclear test which weakened the mountain, according to the report.



PLANET LABS, INC
The mountain where the test site is hidden is seen before the last nuclear test
AIRBUS DS / SPOT IMAGE
Satellite images show Mount Mantap pock-marked with craters from landslides after the last nuclear test
AIRBUS DS / SPOT IMAGE
A close-up of a subsidence crater show scarring from landslides after the tests
PLANET LABS, INC.
Another image shows where the nuclear tests are believed to have taken place
It was reported earlier this year that the mountain under which the base is believed to be hidden was at risk of collapsing and leaking radiation into the region.

Experts said if the peak crumbles, clouds of radioactive dust and gas would blanket the region, the South China Morning Post reported.

The Punggye-ri test site is carved deep into the side of Mount Mantap.

Geophysicist Wen Lianxing and his team at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui province, said they were “confident” underground detonations were occurring underneath the mountain.

PLEIADES CNES/AIRBUS DS/38 NORTH/SPOT IMAGE
A satellite image taken on April 12, 2017 of a North Korean Punggye-ri test site


North Korea state media celebrates its missile capability
REUTERS
Satellite images show the area around North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site
REUTERS
Punggye-ri is seen in commercial satellite imagery taken April 12, 2017
They posted an analysis of data collected from more than 100 seismic monitoring sites across China.

This has narrowed down the location of Pyongyang’s nuclear tests with a margin of error of just 100m. They’ve all been under the same mountain.

Seismic data showed the underground test triggered an earthquake of magnitude 6.3, around ten times more powerful than the fifth test a year ago.




Pyongyang released pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with what state media said was a new type of hydrogen bomb
Nuclear war may break out any moment' North Korean Deputy Ambassador delivers warning at United Nations
Satellite images showed the blast caused numerous landslides around the Punggye-ri test site, according to the Washington-based 38 North monitoring project.

But Chinese nuclear weapons researcher and chair of the China Nuclear Society Wang Naiyan told the Morning Post a collapse could spark a major environmental disaster.

He said: “We call it ‘taking the roof off’. If the mountain collapses and the hole is exposed, it will let out many bad things.

“A 100 kiloton bomb is a relatively large bomb. The North Korean government should stop the tests as they pose a huge threat not only to North Korea but to other countries, especially China.”






North Korea's Kim Jong Un celebrates with scientists after nuclear tests

Satellite photos taken just a day after the blast reveal new gravel and scree fields shaken loose by the blasts at an elevation of about 2205m.

Analysts said these appeared more numerous and widespread than those caused by previous detonations — which would be in keeping with the increased size of the bomb.

Wang said there are limited mountains in North Korea that are “suitable” to conduct a nuclear test.

He said if the North had simply drilled into the side of the mountain, this increased the risk of “blowing the top off”.

News of the tunnel collapse comes after it emerged Russia and the US have both flown nuclear bombers near the country as tensions grow over Kim’s nuke threats.




Why did North Korea test its H-bomb underground?
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Nuclear devices are often tested underground to prevent radioactive material released in the explosion reaching the surface and contaminating the environment.

This method also ensures a degree of secrecy.

The release of radiation from an underground nuclear explosion – an effect known as “venting” – would give away clues to the technical composition and size of a country’s device.

How exactly does the underground test work?
https://www-thesun-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/4806082/north-korea-nuclear-base-collapses-killing-200-radioactive-leak-fears-latest-updates/amp/?amp_js_v=0.1&usqp=mq331AQGCAAYACAB#

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A test site is carefully geologically surveyed to ensure suitability – usually in a place well away from population centres.

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