South China Morning Post: Chinese scientists warn North Korea about disaster threat at nuclear test site
Researchers brief Pyongyang delegation on Beijing’s concerns over facility close to their border.
Chinese geologists have warned their North Korean counterparts of a potential catastrophic collapse of a North Korean underground nuclear test site on China’s doorstep.
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Geology and Geophysics briefed a North Korean delegation in Beijing late last month on the threat of an implosion at the mountainous Punggye-ri nuclear facility, about 80km from China’s border.
A day after North Korea said it detonated a hydrogen bomb at the Punggye-ri facility on September 3, a senior Chinese nuclear scientist warned that future tests at the facility could blow the top off the mountain, causing a massive collapse. The scientist said radioactive waste could bleed from cracks or holes at the site and be blown across the border.
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Update: North Korea on Verge of Catastrophe at Nuclear Test Site, China Warns (Newsweek)
WNU Editor: The North Koreans better be listening to the Chinese. I guess this is also the reason why the North Korans are talking about this .... Foreign Minister: North Korea Could Test Hydrogen Bomb In Pacific (September 21, 2017).
