'ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE' North Korea's Nuclear Test Site Has 'Collapsed'

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6. Really depressing and goes to show just how much concern and respect for the ...

environment that these North K. have. If area around collapsed, I wonder what other ramifications will occur...did some of their nuclear scientists get caught in the collapse? Probably not, these guys are too valuable to the North K. Did leakage occur? Probably so, unless only verified visually (and not by onside/near site detectors). How large of an area was impacted? How much of the ground water was contaminated?

I'm not going to say that these guys were bad environmentally (they were), but the US military also has a history of contamination too, w/ over 800+ nuclear explosions during the days of the cold war (White Sands, Pacific, etc.). The Soviets did too. Everything was gung ho due to the raging Cold War.

Eventually testing migrated to just below ground, but even that was dangerous and eventually discontinued when the size of test blasts were not accurately estimated, and led to blasts escaping into the atmosphere (burst through the ground).

Maybe finally someone will learn ... somehow I doubt it.