N. Korean Building Collapse
N. Korean Building Collapse
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North Korean officials have apologised for the collapse of an apartment building in Pyongyang which is feared to have killed scores of people.
The accident in Pyongyang on Tuesday was reported on Sunday morning by the official Korean Central News Agency.
BBC Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27459186
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The accident in Pyongyang on Tuesday was reported on Sunday morning by the official Korean Central News Agency.
BBC Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27459186
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Doubtful that much in the way of failure reports or other analysis is ever going to see the light of day. I'd hate to be anyone even remotely associated with that project, given how dprk tends to deal with such "shortcomings".
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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If I remember right, one reason that big hotel was abandoned was rampant construction deficiencies.
You would assume that the threat of a painful death would make everyone involved really toe the line on safety. But you also have a mafia-type mentality there, starting at the top, so you can figure everyone involved, from top to bottom, was trying to line their own pockets as well.
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Similar to, or same as China. For at least the last 2000 years of their recorded 3500-year history, business was done, and is being done with bribes. They wouldn't stop just because 3 generations of Kim's have been in charge. If you don't pay the 'fixer' to take care of greasing and regreasing the correct palms, the correct ammounts -- Cumsha -- you will get only the crappy leftovers, delivered late. This is why one USA pipe supplier has a QPL list of 3 mills in China, of the 60 or 80 in operation. All 60-80 have *excellent* prices, just don't deliver to specification w/o a fixer present. And one of the 3 was only reciently reinstated - they had been dropped for delivering substandard materials.
Looks like somebody forgot a couple of palms to grease. And this is why you really can't buy 'spec grade' material from China/N. Korea.
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http://www.nknews.org/2014/06/satellite-imagery-ca...
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The reason given was that NK was trying to show the world how efficient they were in dealing with disasters compared with South Korea and their sunk ferry.
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I saw one of the newspapers/websites was speculating that they hid stuff under camouflage netting to conceal it from satellite, which sounds rather unlikely to me.
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