Israeli Connection
British writer Gordon Thomas hinted that the Mossad (Israel's foreign intelligence agency) was involved in the explosion. Thomas wrote that the train was carrying Syrian nuclear scientists working on the Syrian and Iranian nuclear-weapons programs, and fissionable material that they had arrived to collect. All of the technicians were killed in the blast. Thomas wrote that the site was cordoned off for days as North Korean soldiers in anti-contamination suits collected wreckage and sprayed the area, with Mossad analysts suspecting they were trying to recover weapons-grade plutonium.
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