Syria link to NKorea train explosion

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Registered: 07-25-2003
Syria link to NKorea train explosion
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Sat, 05-15-2004 - 4:46pm
A military source familiar with Korean Peninsula

affairs revealed on 6 May that Syrian technicians were

killed in a train explosion incident that occurred on

22 April in Yongch'on in the northwestern part of the

DPRK and that the damage was especially serious in

that section of the train where the Syrians were

aboard, along with large equipment. The same source

noted that although the contents of the equipment are

unknown, DPRK military-related personnel wearing

protective suits arrived on the scene immediately

after the explosion and removed debris only from that

section of the train where the Syrian group had been

aboard. Consequently, there is a strong likelihood

that the accident occurred when military materials

were being secretly transported between the DPRK and

Syria.

According to the same source, the technicians aboard

the train had been sent from the Syrian technical

research center called Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche

Scientific (CERS). Although CERS was established to

promote science and technology development, it is

suspected of playing a major role in Syria's weapons

of mass destruction development program.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MewNews/message/19905

Renee

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Registered: 03-18-2000
Sun, 05-16-2004 - 7:42am
Gadaffi stated he was trading with Syria, Iran & Korea. Should the news source you posted be genuine it would fit in with past info. Let's keep an eye open for more on this subject. Too bad news from NK is so hard to come by. Very interesting.
cl-Libraone~

 


Photobucket&nbs

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Registered: 07-25-2003
Sun, 05-16-2004 - 9:08pm
Agreed.

Here's the same story printed in a more familiar news source:

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_10.html

Japanese paper says the explosion was 8 times bigger than reported:

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200405/200405160017.html



Renee

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Registered: 03-18-2000
Mon, 05-17-2004 - 6:55am

>"an earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale, which would have required about 800 tons of TNT"<


That was

 


Photobucket&nbs

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Registered: 07-25-2003
Tue, 05-18-2004 - 6:13pm

Renee