"More than 200 people are feared to have died when a tunnel caved in at North Korea’s nuclear test site after its latest detonation, a Japanese news report said last night.
A tunnel collapsed at Punggye-ri in early September, days after North Korea conducted its sixth and largest underground nuclear test on September 3, TV Asahi said, quoting unnamed North Korean sources."
The original source for this news is Asahi TV from Japan.
Now this is where I start having serious doubts about news agencies, when reports like these come out, yet people who scream about fake news believe these news without questioning anything.
I absolutely don't like the North Korean government, it is a dictatorship, it has an elite living like royalty in what is a very poor country.
But it is also not called the Hermit Kingdom for nothing, how would a news agency from wherever get this piece of news? The North Koreans wouldn't admit to this, so is this kind of information believable? If the North Koreans admitted to it, or if a North Korean news agency were the source I would have no doubts but "unnamed North Korean sources"? I tend to think if it is true very few people in North Korea would know about it, the source could be easily spotted and supposedly North Koreans are very swift with their retaliation, so would someone there be as dumb as to give out this information?
And it doesn't even have a date just that it happened after the North Korean September 3 nuclear test. I put this piece of news under the "very doubtful" tag.
You should cite the quote at the beginning of this post.
The news is originally from Asahi TV/Japan.
The quote mentions where that where the news originated from, but you don't mention who you were quoting. A quick google search of the quote reveals the source however.
The source is the Japanese Asahi TV, all others got the news from that source including me.
I read it on Drudge early today.
I've had several thoughts concerning the matter.
Perhaps..(if it is true)...some (unnamed) agency got a bit tired of their nuke tests...and did something about it...
just a thought..
I can nor confirm or deny the article, but in my mind the claim were possibly made after some tests produced earthquake like conditions. Because the nk government is so elusive we are sort of left to guessing, and it sounds to me like an educated guess. Its like saying that the earth shook and the ground settled two inches...people will proably think that some sort of tunnel collapsed.
Nobody but the North Koreans can confirm or deny it (which they won't do). Is it possible? Maybe. Does any western news agency have proof? No. So it comes down to what you can call gossip.
gossip...otherwise know as the news
authors who write history books use the news as a primary source.
history books lie.
Yes, it could be classified as gossip, however it is the kind of gossip that if it is not done then alot of people could die. Therefore I feel that the information should be filed under speculation.
It is just a news article without any reputable source, therefore let's just use the modern terminology and call it fake news.