Reply #123: Well, I doubt they were moving very fast....

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/22/international/asia/22CND-KORE.html?ex=1083297600&en=bd3b8b1548c61c5a&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

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North Korea is such a secretive and unconventional society — Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il's father, is still the head of state a decade after his death — that it is not expected to issue news of the train wreck any time soon.

Train wrecks with large numbers of fatalities are rare in North Korea, largely because trains creak slowly along rails that were first laid during the Japanese occupation, more than 60 years ago.

The explosion took place on North Korea's busiest rail line, on the route from Pyongyang to China. A lifeline for the impoverished nation, the route brings in food and fuel from China, the North's leading trading partner and a major source of aid.