Sunday, September 12, 2004
Not good
A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea (news - web sites), sending a huge mushroom cloud into the air on an important anniversary of the communist regime, a South Korean news agency reported Sunday....
"We understand that a mushroom-shaped cloud about 3.5 to 4 kilometers (about 2-2 1/2 miles) in diameter was monitored during the explosion," Yonhap quoted an unidentified diplomatic source in Seoul as saying.
Read the whole thing.
UPDATE (11:30 a.m.): Apparently we don't think this blast was nuclear. Still, the mushroom cloud was more than two miles high, and left a crater big enough to be seen from space. This is one very weird story.
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