Report Claims Tunnel Collapse Killed Over 200 North Koreans at Nuclear Test Site

If this report is true, the fact these workers were tunneling shows that the Kim regime has future plans for more nuclear tests:

More than 200 people are believed to have died in underground tunnels after a collapse at North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear facility.

The test site was reportedly badly shaken by the aftermath of the country’s sixth nuclear test, a 100-kiloton hydrogen bomb roughly seven times more powerful than the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

North Korean sources told Japanese television channel Asahi TV that the collapse occurred in October during the construction of an underground tunnel at the facility.

Around 100 workers were stuck underground and a group that was sent to their rescue were also buried after another collapse, causing a total death toll of around 200.

A series of small-scale earthquakes that followed the September 3 test indicated the facility, built south of the Mantapsan mountain, may no longer be stable enough to conduct further tests.  [Newsweek]

You can read more at the link, but I wonder how many of the workers killed were just forced laborers from the regime’s system of gulags?