South China Morning Post: North Korea’s nuclear test site at risk of imploding, Chinese scientist says
If mountain under which last five bombs were ‘almost certainly’ detonated crumbles, radiation would leak across region, expert warns.
The single mountain under which North Korea most likely conducted its five most recent nuclear bomb tests, including the latest and most powerful on Sunday, could be at risk of collapsing, a Chinese scientist said.
By measuring and analysing the shock waves caused by the blasts, and picked up by quake stations in China and neighbouring countries, researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui province, said they were confident that they were all carried out from under the same mountain at the Punggye-ri test site.
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WNU Editor: Radioactive contamination is a problem that both Russia and the U.S. have had in the past .... especially when they went through a phase of conducting above-ground tests. The problem is that North Korea is conducting its tests in a vicinity where there are tens of millions of people living within a radius of a few hundred kilometers. The last thing that people in this region will want is a problem of low level radiation spreading around.
