Monthly Archives: April 2004

Opening Borders – Part 2

By sindy | Published: April 24, 2004
As Red Cross workers move into the Ryongchon area, the world seems just as surprised as I am at North Korea’s candor. While it seemed to take a whole day before the North Korean government would even acknowledge occurrence of the disaster, in a surprise move, they quickly asked for international help, opened their borders [...]
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Opening borders

By sindy | Published: April 23, 2004
Amazing. Despite my predictions otherwise, the North Korean government has asked the United Nations for help. Early reports state that over 1,000 people have been injured and 50 bodies have been recovered so far. Maybe things won’t go as badly as I thought. Maybe this will open up North Korea’s borders just a little bit [...]
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Accidental death

By sindy | Published: April 22, 2004
Two fuel trains collided today at a North Korean station near the Chinese border. The crash ignited a huge explosion. Debris rained beyond a ten-mile radius and more than 20 houses were knocked down. As many as 3,000 people may have been injured or killed. After the September 11th attacks in both New York and [...]
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