North Korea Explosion

For those of you not in Korea, you may or may not have heard about the series of explosions in North Korea late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. The thing is, even those of us in (South) Korea are just hearing about it today!! What if there was a real issue like northern troop movement or a possible invasion--would they let us know ahead of time or just let people go about their daily activities?!

As usual, no one knows anything yet and the North hasn't admitted anything. The explosion was bigger than the April train explosion; the damage is big enough to be seen by satellites. At first because of the mushroom shape of the cloud people feared a nuclear test, but now officials are saying such a thing would have been easily picked up by whatever equipment they have, besides it being too dangerous to the North Korean people. It also took place near the Chinese border, making a nuclear test a suicide move. The explosion occurred near a base where weapons are stored, so perhaps it was an intentional or accidental thing there. Others are speculating an earthquake or forest fire (???) or volcanic activity. In other words, no one knows anything. For a few of the facts (which I've summarized here) see the Korea Time's account .