Reply #55: N.Korea blast probably not nuclear

[allemand]

"South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper said the site was 6 miles southwest of the Yongjori Missile Base at a point 18 miles from the China frontier. The mountainous area is off-limits to outsiders, including aid workers.

The base has tunnels for storing, deploying and launching medium-range Rodong missiles, according to defector reports.

<...>

John Bellini, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado, said his organisation had not detected an explosion large enough to be considered nuclear.

"If it was a nuclear bomb, that would have been detected by everybody in the world," he said. A blast involving a conventional bomb would have been too small to detect, he said."

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=581818§ion=news