Your Yongbyon Cooling Tower Demolition porn, courtesy Youtube:
[youtube]http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=r3UnhTDuQQc&feature=user[/youtube]
As a bit of a eulogy to the deceased cooling tower, I’d like to say it was fun picking up North Korean jeeps with the Russian helicopter magnet and dropping them into the cooling tower in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction.
Cooling Tower, you’ll be sorely missed.
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It’s a cooling tower. It’s a %$#@! cooling tower. Does anyone else realize how insignificant its destruction is? I can build you a cooling tower…right now.
I double dog dare you.
It’s done. There is now a nuclear cooling tower chilling outside of my room. Now I just need some weapons grade plutonium.
Strategically speaking, it’s absolutely critical for S. Korea to get rid of N. Korean nukes, by whatever methods (lie, cheat, steak, rob, bribe). Due to the close proximity to the border, as well as heavy concentration of nearly half of S. Korean population and most of its industry in the greater Seoul area, if war ever breaks out and the north unloads its small nuclear stockpile on Seoul, S. Korea is effectively done as a nation for decades. The North’s convention military is quite backward and no match for the South, so nuclear weapons is their only effective counter-balance. Plus I doubt they care what happens to their people in a nuclear war.
The unfortunate thing is that I bet you anything there are South Koreans in their 20’s or so thinking that North Korea surrendering their nukes is bad in some perverse pan-Korean kind of way.
Here is the kicker, per the Chosun Ilbo
So, the U.S. taxpayer is paying for this!? I think I would really *rather* use a soviet helicopter to drop NK jeeps into the thing.
To # 6,
Explosives- $20,000
Demolition Team- $30,000
Clean-up- $100,000
Additional sleep gained from knowing it’s now that much harder to have krazy Kim Jong Il point Taepodong missiles at you or any of your allies?
Priceless.
Bet you Tristan is on the ball with this one.
They blew it up, in order to make room for an expansion of the Yongbyon nuclear facility. ( Total speculation I will admit)
Wait until you see the new, bigger and better cooling tower, paid for by you guessed who
# 8,
I doubt it. The clincher for me is that they have given a dossier to the Chinese, which means they have given an implied promise to the Chinese that they won’t lie. Significant given that the Chinese supply the oil that keeps North Korea afloat.
Given the construction practices used in this part of the world, was that particular tower even reliably functional? They may have demolished crap. For shyo.
It looks like the ANC and Nelson Mandela just (just) beat the North Koreans to it. And they didn’t even need to blow up a concrete tower to get there.
BBC