North Korea - Updates

[Neferti]

IF ANYONE drops nukes ... isn't that the End of The World? Can they direct them to certain countries?

The rest of it was rubbish ....

[sprintcyclist]

...................... US President Donald Trump has said he is keen to meet Kim Jong-un after being told the North Korean leader's trip to China "went very well". ................

Thanks Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump

[Black Orchid]

Last weekend, North Korea suspended its nuclear tests and shut down the site where the last six detonations took place: underneath Mount Mantap, in the country’s northeast.

The reasons are ostensibly diplomatic, pointing to a thaw in relations between Kim Jong-un’s regime and South Korea and the West, but some noted that Pyongyang might have also been worried that the mountain was at risk of collapsing, as it visibly shifted during the last nuclear test. However, two separate groups of Chinese scientists now say Mount Mantap did in fact collapse after that detonation.

That means there’s a risk of radioactive contamination spreading not only within North Korea, but to other countries in the region. The site is not far from North Korea’s borders with China and Russia.

According to geologists from the University of Science and Technology of China, the collapse took place minutes after Kim Jong-un’s regime conducted its last nuclear test in September of last year.

The test of the 100-kiloton bomb, which led Chinese seismologists to register a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, apparently opened up a hole of up to 656 feet in diameter. Part of the mountain then fell into the hole.

The findings of the team, led by renowned seismologist Wen Lianxing, are set to be published next month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

According to the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, another team from the China Earthquake Administration reckons the collapse created a “chimney” that could allow the escape of fallout. The publication quoted researcher Zhao Lianfeng from the Chinese Academy of Sciences as saying the site was “wrecked” beyond repair.

So Pyongyang’s renouncement of land-based nuclear tests, for now, appears to be motivated by more than mere diplomatic concerns.

http://fortune.com/2018/04/25/north-kor ... nt-mantap/

[Black Orchid]

An underground North Korean nuclear test in September last year exploded with 10 times the energy of the atomic bomb that exploded over Nagasaki in 1945.

It also caused parts of the overlying mountain peak to sink by half a metre and shift about 3.5 metres south.

Using satellite measurements and seismic data, geophysicists calculated the strength of the test and its location — the first time satellite radar has been used this way

The blast was big enough to cause an earthquake and deform the mountain above

These are conclusions drawn by geophysicists, who used satellite radar and instruments that pick up waves travelling through the earth, to calculate the explosion's depth and strength.

In the journal Science today, they also report signs that a subterranean tunnel system at the test site collapsed 8.5 minutes after the bomb detonated.

Dr Wang and his team calculated that the top of the mountain subsided about half a metre after the September test, and parts of it shuffled south.

To manage this deformation, the bomb released the energy equivalent to between 109,000 and 276,000 tonnes of TNT in a chamber 450 metres below Mt Mantap's peak.

The "Fat Man" bomb that exploded over Nagasaki yielded an energy level equivalent to 20,000 tonnes.

Among the data, they found the seismic shivers of a second, smaller event — an aftershock that appeared 700 metres south of, and 8.5 minutes after, the explosion.

The waves produced by the aftershock weren't consistent with an explosion; rather, it looked like the ground had imploded.

This, the geophysicists suggest, "likely indicates the collapse of the tunnel system of the test site".

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018 ... ng/9746676

[Black Orchid]

Using these images, the team found that Mount Mantap moved by around 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) and shrank by 1.6 feet (0.5 m). This may indicate a collapse of tunnels in the mountain according to Teng Wang, senior research fellow at the Earth Observatory of Singapore in the Nanyang Technological University and the first author of the paper.

"But we could not tell if this is the [complete] collapse of the whole test site or the collapse of the tunnel, as there is no direct evidence for it," Wang said. People would need to investigate on-site to figure that out, he added.

The team also analyzed seismic data and found that the direction the waves traveled was exactly the opposite of the actual explosion. So, since the explosion would have been outward, the second 4.1-magnitude rumbling might have been inward, indicating a collapse as the previous study did.

But the ground shaking could have resulted from the collapse of a void in the rocks that was created by a previous explosion or even the most recent explosion, said Douglas Dreger, an Earth and planetary science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of the paper. Or, he added, it could have been a tunnel, a partial tunnel, or a multiple tunnels.

"I wouldn't say that the whole mountain collapsed, I wouldn't draw the catastrophic conclusion," Dreger said.

The researchers estimated that the strength of the explosion was about 120 to 304 kilotons, or 10 times that dropped on Hiroshima, according to a statement. (Other estimates differ, with one saying it was as strong as 17 times that of Hiroshima, according to The Washington Post).

Wang hopes this study will push forward the use of satellite imaging to research underground nuclear tests.

https://www.livescience.com/62534-north ... ntain.html

Unreal

This is a mountain with an elevation of 2,205 metres.

[Black Orchid]

[Black Orchid]

A CIA assessment ahead of the US/North Korea summit argues that Kim Jong-un will not give up his nuclear weapons, but wants to discuss the opening of an American fast-food chain in Pyongyang.

https://www.news.com.au/world/us-and-no ... 81d8704a60

Kimmy wants a Maccas

[BigP]

The guys run outta money , Its a good time to chum up to the US ,

[Black Orchid]

Looks like Kim the dim is at it again.

North Korea has fired at least one short-range missile from the east coast city of Wonsan towards the east, with South Korea's military confirming the incident.

South Korea's joint chiefs of staff (JCS) said Korea and US authorities were analysing details of a missile, which was fired around 9:00am local time (10:00am AEST).

But South Korean news agency Yonhap reported a "barrage" of unidentified short-range missiles, citing a JCS press release which said the North, "fired multiple rounds of unidentified missiles … in the north-eastern direction between 9:06am and 9:27am today".

Yonhap said the JCS reported the missiles flew for a range of about 70 to 100 kilometres.

"Our military has been closely watching North Korea's movements and has maintained a full-fledged posture in close coordination with the US," the JCS said.

The firing comes amid a diplomatic breakdown following the failed summit earlier this year between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over the North's pursuit of a nuclear arsenal that can target the US mainland.

The joint chiefs of staff were not immediately available for comment, while South Korea's presidential spokeswoman said they were checking the report.

Mr Kim recently met Russian President Vladimir Putin in a first-ever summit between the two leaders, aimed at resolving a standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear program.

Mr Putin said the two leaders had "exchanged views on how and what needs to be done so that we can improve the situation", while Mr Kim called the discussions "fruitful" and a "meaningful exchange".

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-04/ ... e/11080184

[Nicole]

My advice to Kim: don’t fuck with Donald.

There’s a good boy.