Disaster In North Korea
<div class="IPBDescription">Train wreck death toll in thousands</div> <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><i><b>Yahoo!.com - SEOUL, South Korea</b> - Two fuel trains collided and exploded in a North Korean train station near the Chinese border Thursday, according to South Korean media, which reported large numbers of casualties. One television station said 3,000 people were believed killed or injured.
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, reportedly had passed through the station as he returned from China nine hours earlier. It was not clear what caused the crash, or if it was related to Kim's journey. The trains were carrying oil and liquefied petroleum gas, media reported. </i><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, reportedly had passed through the station as he returned from China nine hours earlier. It was not clear what caused the crash, or if it was related to Kim's journey. The trains were carrying oil and liquefied petroleum gas, media reported. </i><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Someday, they'll tell a story...
And then some people will say that the Center didn't even exist and whoever wrote the history books made it up, like a boogeyman story.
And I'll laugh and say, yeah, you're right.
They didn't exist.
Kinda scary that we probably still know more about it than most North Koreans; at least that's the impression I get from the articles I've seen on it.
Okay, so, there is a difference. One country went to war and the other's going to shrug and go on with their lives.
But then, Korea's already at a stand-still-grade war, so maybe it comes to the same thing in the end.
What with the States having a similar border with Canada, now.
"No, Mister shotgun-toting border guard, I'm not carrying drugs and I don't have any kind of arrest record whatsoever."
"Well, you're a young Canadian and we don't like your drug laws, so we're going to kick you out anyway and if you try to come back in the next five years, you're going to jail."
"Thank you, Mister shotgun-toting border guard. I really appreciate your attitude."
Someday, they'll tell a story...
And then some people will say that the Center didn't even exist and whoever wrote the history books made it up, like a boogeyman story.
And I'll laugh and say, yeah, you're right.
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...what the <i>hell</i> are you on about? What on earth has that got to do with a train disaster in Korea?
i've got the same question about THIS one:
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->What with the States having a similar border with Canada, now.
"No, Mister shotgun-toting border guard, I'm not carrying drugs and I don't have any kind of arrest record whatsoever."
"Well, you're a young Canadian and we don't like your drug laws, so we're going to kick you out anyway and if you try to come back in the next five years, you're going to jail."
"Thank you, Mister shotgun-toting border guard. I really appreciate your attitude."<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
how is that relevant to the train wreck?
the US is at a secret stand still war with canada o_o??
please explain =\
this isn't a sign of some kind of illuminati war-inciting conspiracy. (as a side note: why the hell would a train <u><b>accident</b></u> want people to support war in north korea?) well anyway, everyone can go post that crap in a <i>tabloid</i> topic. because this is a <i>news</i> topic.
i just read that it's 3000 <i>casualties</i>..
well we'll hear the death toll soon enough :\
And yes, I knew it was only casualties when I made the post.
Kinda like the Russians wasting time with the trapped seamen on the Kursk Submarine. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Except Cold-NiTe, apparently.
My point was that the "final death toll" for WTC was somewhere in the town where the number 3000 resides. Less, if I remember correctly.
The relation between "accident" and "intentional event" blurs considerably when looked at from certain perspectives.
But far be it from me to drop an education about the FBI and CIA.
Yeah, sure, the friends and families of the three-thousand will mourn in their own way [yes, I'm counting the injured, since you DO suffer from injuried too, right?], but they're not going to be driven to war over it. That was my point. They're not going to whip out guns and wave national flags while pointing fingers at whoever for whatever whenever.
Have you seen what the border between North and South Korea looks like?
The US is finding any excuse it can to point its figurative and literal guns at Canada. The latest I'm aware of is that Canada's pot laws aren't strong enough [which I agree with], so young Canadians of any demeanor are now more closely scrutinized. Five-year denials of entry [under penalty of prison] are given because you happen to be driving something OTHER than a snot-box rust machine [because you're so <i>obviously</i> a smuggler-slash-dealer].
Oh, sure, you can argue simantics and say that there are no American incursions into Canadian villages to rape a plunder, but perhaps you're forgetting the soft-wood lumber stories.
But... But... But how does that compare, you ask?
Would you like me to arrange a guided tour of the ghost towns that now dot BC? No? Too bad. Your loss. It's a beautiful province. I knew it before its forests were razed.
Maybe there aren't literal tanks lining the border, but there's an equal amount of propaganda and fighting in terms of words, economical back-biting, political pandering and idiocy.
Yes, the wreck's a tragedy. Yes, WTC was a tragedy too.
My point was in the difference between how both was and will be treated. One with the over-absorption of information and the other with a denial of information. One leads to a so-called "war," the other leads to <i>relative</i> "peace" [yeah, yeah, not counting this, that and the other thing you want to bring up] in the sense that it won't be used as a propaganda tool [or will it?]. They'll tighten safety regulations, memorials will be erected, a great hubbub will be made over the innocent lives lost [by the few who know about it?], but the country will <i>go on</i>.
Not that I expect the point's still going to be understood any better, but whatever. One man's tragedy is another man's joke.
Not that I think it's a joke, but you apparently came here hoping for sympathy. Looking at the world-wide human condition, sympathy isn't something I have in great quantities for a few thousand people. A few million? Whew! A teeny-tiny bit more room to breathe! A few billion? Now you're talking. Bring on the winter. We'll go skiing in the perpetual dark while we hunt for the elussive survivors of the wild. Maybe we'll learn something as a species. Maybe we'll realize there's more to this world than us. Maybe we'll stop making any kind of deal about a few thousand people and start making one about the ground under my feet and the ground under your feet and the ground under everybody's feet, since it's the same damned ground.
But that wasn't what you wanted to hear. Unfortunately, this <i>is</i> an open forum and you risk hearing things you might not have wanted to hear. What you think of what I just said, I think of what the majority of the human race says. Small world, ain't it?
I'll count on the fingers of one hand the number of people who'll have any idea what my full point was, since there's a life-long essay behind it the majority of people never get the chance to write. But that's not my fault.
<a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040423/ts_afp/nkorea_train_blast_040423031415&e=1' target='_blank'>Link</a>
but yeah they probably inflated the number
Inflatable people goooooooooood.
Where both of the train conducters <span style='color:orange'>racist comment removed</span>
Anyways, ya that does suck though, but chet happens in life. Just another tradegy for the books.
You still haven't explained this bit:
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Someday, they'll tell a story...
And then some people will say that the Center didn't even exist and whoever wrote the history books made it up, like a boogeyman story.
And I'll laugh and say, yeah, you're right.
They didn't exist. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You still haven't explained this bit:
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Someday, they'll tell a story...
And then some people will say that the Center didn't even exist and whoever wrote the history books made it up, like a boogeyman story.
And I'll laugh and say, yeah, you're right.
They didn't exist. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah WTH is he babbling about?
Sarcasism...kinda <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And imo, the next greatest thing besides life..is death.
You know, there are people who say the holocaust never happend. AND HAVE HUNDREDS AND MAYBE EVEN THOUSANDS OF BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS TO PROVE IT! So I'm not doubting that somebody will pretend the WTC incident never happened and same with this here.
Today, much more than 3000 people will die from hunger or disease, spread all over the world. But that is SO hard to count, and you can´t show one nice satellite picture of it...
54 Casualities
1200 Injured
gg North Korea government.
Damn... that was a little exaggerated...
Just because we don't mourn for the people starved to death every day, doesn't mean we should just ignore incidents like these, too.
No?
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