It's bull..

The South Korean government is even investigating the financial markets to see if someone fabricated that story to make money off the stock market.

Originally posted by Vitchilo
It's bull..

The South Korean government is even investigating the financial markets to see if someone fabricated that story to make money off the stock market.

This is what worries me.
If a corporation would risk a war, by starting a rumor for profit, how many corporations would actually pay some guy half a mill to genuinely cause a terrorist incident for profit?

Always follow the money. S Korea is doing what all other governments should do whenever there's an incident.

Originally posted by JoeGuitar
Regardless of veracity, it is an interesting story given the fact that the same has happened in Iran. I remember, some years ago, a train traveling from Iran to North Korea was derailed and created some sort of hazard to folks in North Korea. The iron curtain fell pretty quickly on that story and the nature of the cargo was purely speculative. It seems these two countries are connected in some way...

Hi all. Expect this has now been pointed out, but wasn't the cross border rail connection with China "Put, out of use" many years ago, and that is the only rail connection to the rest of the world for NK?

Not having checked it out, but not too sure there is any rail link through China to Iran?

Will do a bit of research and get back to you all.

Think the explosion may be just a rumour, bit scary if it is not though.

Originally posted by detachedindividual

Originally posted by Vitchilo
It's bull..

The South Korean government is even investigating the financial markets to see if someone fabricated that story to make money off the stock market.

This is what worries me.
If a corporation would risk a war, by starting a rumor for profit, how many corporations would actually pay some guy half a mill to genuinely cause a terrorist incident for profit?

Always follow the money. S Korea is doing what all other governments should do whenever there's an incident.

Yet people are so quickly to buy into when it comes to 9/11.

Go figure...

Still nothing to substantiate the claims either coming from any news source (including Press / RT for those who dont trust western media).

The other possibility is this may be linked to the North if we speculate for a moment. The North was pissed at the South over an apparent lack of respect during the funeral. They said they would retaliate... What better way than to have an agent in the south speculate about a possible explosion in the North that only affects S. Korean / Western / Asian markets?

It would be difficult to verify the claims (depending on the type and location of explosion), and since it supposedly occurred in the North they aren't going to talk about / cooperate with any investigation, so they have isolation / deniability.

As for the rest of the world they get a hickup in the markets, an investigation into stock manipulation that could have been caused by the North, and the possibility, or at least thought, of how many more sleepers might be in the system.

Just speculation of course, but as others point out, the timing is interesting.

Originally posted by dowot
Hi all. Expect this has now been pointed out, but wasn't the cross border rail connection with China "Put, out of use" many years ago, and that is the only rail connection to the rest of the world for NK?

Not having checked it out, but not too sure there is any rail link through China to Iran?

Will do a bit of research and get back to you all.

Think the explosion may be just a rumour, bit scary if it is not though.

I didn't think the link was taken out. I do remember some time back that there was an explosion at the main terminal shortly after Jim jong il passed through the area ( a few hours if I remember right).