North Korea MELTDOWN: How Kim could RUIN his nuclear ambition if he conducts ONE MORE test
NORTH Korea could become the makers of their own destruction after experts revealed Kim Jong-Un could ruin his own nuclear ambitions if the despot conducts even one more test at his beloved military base.
By VICKIIE OLIPHANT
Express.co.uk
Thu, Oct 19, 2017
The chubby dictator could be forced to abandon his Punggye-ri nuclear test site after a series of earthquakes struck the region in recent months.
The destabilising tremors came after North Korea detonated a nuclear weapon – claimed to be a hydrogen bomb – at least five times more powerful than the blast at Hiroshima in World War 2.
The test sparked a massive 6.1 magnitude earthquake underneath the secretive base, which has since been hit by subsequent quakes, measuring 2.6 and 3.2 as a result of “geological stress” caused by the first explosion.
Now analysts from monitoring website 38 North believe the Mt Mantap site may no longer be suitable for further tests amid fears the base could collapse – putting thousands at risk.
The analysts played down reports that the rogue regime may have “nuked itself out of a nuclear test site”.
But they indicated the H-bomb test on September 3 caused “substantial damage” to the network of tunnels underneath the mountain base.
And if the site were to collapse, a plume of radioactive material could waft across the Korean peninsula – killing millions.
Analysis from 38 North said: “Based on the severity of the initial blast, the post-test tremors, and the extent of observable surface disturbances, we have to assume that there must have been substantial damage to the existing tunnel network under Mt Mantap.
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