North Korea among most dangerous countries for travellers

[DavidsSling]

North Korea is among the most dangerous countries in the world when it comes to medical treatment and exposure to potentially life-threatening infections while travelling.

Global risk experts International SOS and Control Risks ranked the Hermit Kingdom among eight other countries as having the highest travel medical risk.

These include Afghanistan, Libya, Niger, Central African Republic, Yemen, Iraq, Eritrea, and Guinea.

The countries where medical treatment is almost non-existent for travellers. (Travel Risk Map)

International SOS defines very high travel medical risk as a country where healthcare is "almost non-existent or severely overtaxed".

"There may be very limited or no primary care, emergency care or dental services. Quality prescription drugs are frequently unavailable," it said in a statement.
"Food and water-borne infections are common. Potentially life-threatening infectious diseases such as malaria and cholera may be persistently present and large outbreaks may occur."

Korean Central News Agency said Kim expressed satisfaction over what North Korea described as a successful test of its new rocket launcher with 'superpower' capabilities. (AP/AAP)

Australia remains among the countries with the lowest level of risk, alongside Turkey, German, the UK, France, United States, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea.

Syria and Somalia are among the most dangerous countries in the world when it comes to travel security. They are joined by Afghanistan, Libya, Mali, South Sudan, Yemen and Iraq.

International SOS says extreme travel security risk is where government control and law and order may be minimal or non-existent across large areas.

The most dangerous countries in the world for travellers. (Travel Risk Map)

"Serious threat of violent attacks by armed groups targeting travellers and international assignees," it said.

"Government and transport services are barely functional. Large parts of the country are inaccessible to foreigners."

https://www.9news.com.au/national/n...he-world/e62a995f-29dd-4d59-b1ea-6643e4ad0d65

https://www.travelriskmap.com/#/planner/map/medical

 

[ARMalik]

This report is as good as a used toilet paper.

 

[OIO]

This report is as good as a used toilet paper.

Many Chinese have visited N.Korea, there are restrictions but not dangerous.

 

[AViet]

Not dangerous to Vietnamese tourists. No. of Vietnamese to this country has increased a lot since the visit of Mr. Kim to Hanoi in early 2019.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Not dangerous to Vietnamese tourists. No. of Vietnamese to this country has increased a lot since the visit of Mr. Kim to Hanoi in early 2019.

They don’t mean criminally dangerous..it’s dangerous if you have a medical emergency like an appendicitis and you need an operation quickly or being exposed to dangerous pathogens.

There’s always somebody being medevac’d by helicopter off some remote ski slope due to some stupid accident or heart attack. So people take for granted that wherever you are somebody is going to get you...but in these countries you may be out of luck.

The target audience of this site is mostly people in developed countries who assume this is worldwide. To other people it is misread as something to do with crime.

 

[WarKa DaNG]

And why are we dangerous than rapistan?

 

[pakpride00090]

Dangerous to western white folks. Not to other nations and non-white people..Infact , north koreans actually are very welcoming of tourists. If one believes western media, most North koreans would be considered sub-humans.

 

[Yaseen1]

south africa should be included due to high Aids patients

 

[beijingwalker]

More dangerou than Syria and Afghanistn? To Americans maybe

 

[Galactic Penguin SST]

More dangerou than Syria and Afghanistn? To Americans maybe

Suddenly, since about a week, a new timely hate campaign has been observed on the various sub-forums of PDF, and by the usual enemies of Iran-DPRK....

Coincidence? I think not!

This only reminds one of the 19th January 2019 "Batshit Iranian Regime Wants Their People To Think They Invented The Space Shuttle" thread, that ultimately backfired on the OP, when the opposite was achieved, as the readers were amazed by the new undisclosed powerful Iranian Heavy-Lift Space Launcher Safir-4.

Thus leaving no other choice to the OP but to close the said thread!


And here...the reason for such desperate move revealed:

Spoiler: Links

http://www.jajusibo.com/imgdata/jajuilbo_com/201709/2017091147064160.jpg
http://jajusibo.com/sub_read.html?uid=35583&section=sc38&section2=

▲ Closeup of a schematics seen during the September 2, 2017 round of Kim Jong Un's on-the-spot field guidance, and titled Hwasong-14 nuclear warhead structure.
The Hwasong-14 nosecone fairing is 3.2 m in length and 1.3 m in diameter.
One single thermonuclear warhead is estimated to be 1.4 m in length, 65 cm in diameter and 700 kg in weight, without the trigger mechanism.
The total mass of the thermonuclear warhead is estimated to be 850 kg.

Spoiler: Links

http://www.jajusibo.com/imgdata/jajuilbo_com/201709/2017091144578508.jpg
http://jajusibo.com/sub_read.html?uid=35583&section=sc38&section2=

▲ The Hwasong-14 single thermonuclear warhead as seen during the September 2, 2017 round of Kim Jong Un's on-the-spot field guidance.
The Hwasong-14 nosecone fairing is 3.2 m in length and 1.3 m in diameter.
One single thermonuclear warhead is estimated to be 1.4 m in length, 65 cm in diameter and 700 kg in weight, without the trigger mechanism.
The total mass of the thermonuclear warhead is estimated to be 850 kg.

Spoiler: Links

http://www.jajusibo.com/imgdata/jajuilbo_com/201709/2017091148418305.jpg
http://jajusibo.com/sub_read.html?uid=35583&section=sc38&section2=

▲ The Hwasong-14 single thermonuclear warhead as seen during the September 2, 2017 round of Kim Jong Un's on-the-spot field guidance.
The Hwasong-14 nosecone fairing is 3.2 m in length and 1.3 m in diameter.
One single thermonuclear warhead is estimated to be 1.4 m in length, 65 cm in diameter and 700 kg in weight, without the trigger mechanism.
The total mass of the thermonuclear warhead is estimated to be 850 kg.

Spoiler: Links

http://www.jajusibo.com/imgdata/jajuilbo_com/201709/201709114750244.jpg
http://jajusibo.com/sub_read.html?uid=35583&section=sc38&section2=

▲ CGI of the Hwasong-14 single thermonuclear warhead as seen during the September 2, 2017 round of Kim Jong Un's on-the-spot field guidance.
As you can see in the picture above, the thermonuclear warhead primary system is a spherical nuclear bomb that looks like a basketball.
The inner surface of the primary system, which connects the primary and secondary system, is made of a reflector that prevents radiation from being scattered in all directions, made of polystyrene, a kind of colorless transparent synthetic resin.
In the secondary system, the thermonuclear charge is filled with a dual structure, made of lithium deuteride on the inside, and highly enriched uranium, called sparkplug, on the outside, which triggers a fusion reaction. Depending on the amount of lithium deuteride, the explosive power of the fusion charge can be controlled.

Spoiler: Links

http://www.jajusibo.com/imgdata/jajuilbo_com/201709/2017091149459489.jpg
http://jajusibo.com/sub_read.html?uid=35583&section=sc38&section2=

▲ A photo as seen on a big screen during a musical performance celebrating the success of the nuclear warhead explosion test conducted at the Pyongyang People's Theater on September 9, 2017.
Three scientists are seen assembling a nuclear warhead. It seems clear that the text printed on the nuclear warhead is "hydrogen".
As you can see in the picture above, the thermonuclear warhead primary system is a spherical nuclear bomb that looks like a basketball.
The inner surface of the primary system, which connects the primary and secondary system, is made of a reflector that prevents radiation from being scattered in all directions, made of polystyrene, a kind of colorless transparent synthetic resin.
In the secondary system, the thermonuclear charge is filled with a dual structure, made of lithium deuteride on the inside, and highly enriched uranium, called sparkplug, on the outside, which triggers a fusion reaction. Depending on the amount of lithium deuteride, the explosive power of the fusion charge can be controlled.

Spoiler: Link

https://media.giphy.com/media/yvXyKcOWq2vny/giphy.gif
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLAIG1-B0pM
T=9s to T=14s

▲ Published on Sep 11, 2017. North Korea shows scientists preparing H-Bomb test during concert

Spoiler: Link

https://media.giphy.com/media/v9aqaqtNJxbwI/giphy.gif
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLAIG1-B0pM
T=24s to T=26s

▲ Published on Sep 11, 2017. North Korea shows H-Bomb test during concert

Spoiler: Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLAIG1-B0pM

▲ Published on Sep 11, 2017. North Korea shows scientists preparing H-Bomb test during concert, and footage of the explosion!

Spoiler: Links

http://www.jajusibo.com/imgdata/jajuilbo_com/201709/2017091153258259.jpg
http://jajusibo.com/sub_read.html?uid=35583&section=sc38&section2=

▲ A representation of the Mantapsan (만탑산, 萬塔山: Mt. Mantap) Underground Nuclear Test Station. The nuclear test site of the DPRK is located about 2 km below the ground, vertically below the Mantapsan's peak of 2,205 km above sea level, consisting of granite layers. This means that the explosion chamber was installed in a granite layer below 2 km. As you can see in the photo above, the underground tunnel near the explosion room was designed like a snail, and ten steel shutter doors were installed in the underground tunnel. The DPRK has built a near-perfect shielding facility.

Spoiler: Links

http://www.jajusibo.com/imgdata/jajuilbo_com/201709/2017091151592852.jpg
http://jajusibo.com/sub_read.html?uid=35583&section=sc38&section2=

▲ Comparison of seismic signals (to scale) of all six declared DPRK nuclear tests, as observed at IMS station AS-59 Aktyubinsk, Kazakhstan.
The upper photo shows the artificial earthquake wave of the nuclear warhead explosion test of the DPRK shown in the earthquake measuring device of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Organization.
They announced that the earthquake size was 6.1. The lower photo shows the artificial earthquake wave of the thermonuclear warhead explosion test of the DPRK in the earthquake measuring device of the Geological Physics Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences. They announced that the earthquake size was 6.4.
According to the Kelly Kiloton Index (KKI), formulated in 2006 by H. A. Kelly of UCLA, which is an earthquake magnitude converted to explosive power, the earthquake magnitude of 6.0 means a 1 Mt explosive power. The power is 1.4 Mt. Therefore, when the artificial earthquake that occurred in the nuclear warhead explosion test of the DPRK is 6.0-6.1, the explosive power is 1-1.4Mt.

Spoiler: Links

http://www.jajusibo.com/imgdata/jajuilbo_com/201709/2017090536039854.jpg
http://jajusibo.com/sub_read.html?uid=35484&section=sc3&section2=

▲ September 4, 2017 SBS 8:00 news reports that China and the United States measured a 6.3 seismic magnitude meaning the explosive yield can be estimated to have been roughly 250 kilotons.
The United States and Russia have nuclear ballistic missiles equipped with multi-warheads of about 200 kt.
In the case of the single-warhead Russian Topol-M the yield is 800 kt.
And the RS-24 YARS intercontinental ballistic missile thermonuclear multi-warheads are each of 150-500 kt.
The Trident of the United States is 100 kt and the B61-12 is 500 kt.

September 12, 2017

At the time of the sixth nuclear test, the preliminary seismic magnitude estimates varied from 5.8, as published by both the CTBTO and NORSAR, to 6.3 by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). More recently, both the CTBTO and NORSAR have officially revised their estimates upward to 6.1. This revision is significant because, rather than providing an equivalent yield of about 120 kilotons derived from the lower magnitude estimates, the application of standard formula with appropriate constants shows that the yield can now be estimated to have been roughly 250 kilotons (one quarter megaton). This large explosive yield is also quite close to what 38 North had previously determined to be the maximum estimated containable yield for the Punggye-ri test site.

http://www.38north.org/2017/09/punggye091217/
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Spoiler: Links

http://arirangmeari.com/contents/news/2017/09/news_2017-09-11_18459_image1.jpg
http://arirangmeari.com/index.php?t=news&no=3405

▲ North Korean scientists have harnessed the cosmic power of thermonuclear fusion with The Dumbbell

Spoiler: Links

http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/Nebulae/M27_6Filter/FullSizeJpg/M27.jpg

▲ Cosmic energy unleashed by The Dumbbell

Spoiler: Links

http://arirangmeari.com/contents/news/2017/09/news_2017-09-13_18510_image1.jpg
http://arirangmeari.com/index.php?t=news&no=3424

▲ Oli Heinonen, Secretary General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has commented about the nuclear weapons of North Korea: "EMP is a very dangerous weapon that destroys all electronic equipment on the ground ". Because EMP blasts explode at very high altitudes, intercepting is difficult and affects a vast area, so even if you only hold for a few minutes, you will have tremendous destructive power.

North Korean H-Bomb Detonated On 3rd September 2017 Estimated At 245 To 271 Kilotons Of TNT

North Korean Nuke Test 'More Powerful Than Thought'

November 18, 2019 13:25

An Indian team of scientists has estimated the explosive yield of the nuclear weapon detonated by North Korea on Sept. 3, 2017 at 245 to 271 kilotons of TNT.

The estimate was made by a team led by K. M. Sreejith of the Indian Space Research Organisation based on satellite observations.

The new estimate is more than double the 120 kilotons that were estimated by an international research team of U.S. and German scientists and published in Science Magazine last year.

If correct, the yield was 17 times as high as the 15-kiloton Hiroshima bomb of 1945. The outcome of the latest research was published in Geophysical Journal International.

The research team analyzed radar images taken by ALOS-2, a Japanese satellite, of the area in and around Mt. Mantap in North Hamgyong Province where the North conducted its sixth nuclear test.

According to the team, the base of the mountain moved a few meters immediately after the nuclear explosion and the flank of the mountaintop also moved 0.5 m. The blast occurred 540 m beneath the mountaintop.

Normally, scientists estimate the scale of an explosion by measuring seismic waves that occur immediately after a nuclear blast. But in the North's case they had to make an indirect estimate because it was difficult to obtain seismic data from test site.

"Satellite based radars are very powerful tools to gauge changes in earth surface, and allow us to estimate the location and yield of underground nuclear tests," Sreejith said. "In conventional seismology by contrast, the estimations are indirect and depend on the availability of seismic monitoring stations."

http://web.archive.org/web/20191118...e/data/html_dir/2019/11/18/2019111801792.html
http://archive.vn/uwRbA
​

Constraints on the location, depth and yield of the 2017 September 3 North Korean nuclear test from InSAR measurements and modelling

K M Sreejith, Ritesh Agrawal, A S Rajawat

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 220, Issue 1, January 2020, Pages 345–351, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz451

SUMMARY

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) conducted its sixth and largest affirmed underground nuclear test on 2017 September 3. Analysis of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data revealed detailed surface displacements associated with the nuclear explosion. The nuclear explosion produced large-scale surface deformation causing decorrelation of the InSAR data directly above the test site, Mt. Mantap, while the flanks of the Mountain experienced displacements up to 0.5 m along the Line-of-Sight of the Satellite. We determined source parameters of the explosion using the Bayesian inversion of the InSAR data. The explosive yield was estimated as 245–271 kiloton (kt) of TNT, while the previous yield estimations range from 70–400 kt. We determined the nuclear source at a depth of 542 ± 30 m below Mt. Mantap (129.0769°E, 41.0324°N). We demonstrated that the Bayesian modelling of the InSAR data reduces the uncertainties in the source parameters of the nuclear test, particularly the yield and source depth that are otherwise poorly resolved in seismic methods.

http://web.archive.org/web/20191116094213/https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/220/1/345/5584343
http://archive.ph/Xgo9V
​

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

This only reminds one of the 19th January 2019 "Batshit Iranian Regime Wants Their People To Think They Invented The Space Shuttle" thread, that ultimately backfired on the OP, when the opposite was achieved, as the readers were amazed by the new undisclosed powerful Iranian Heavy-Lift Space Launcher Safir-4.

Thus leaving no other choice to the OP but to close the said thread!


And here...the reason for such desperate move revealed:




North Korean H-Bomb Detonated On 3rd September 2017 Estimated At 245 To 271 Kilotons Of TNT

North Korean Nuke Test 'More Powerful Than Thought'

November 18, 2019 13:25

An Indian team of scientists has estimated the explosive yield of the nuclear weapon detonated by North Korea on Sept. 3, 2017 at 245 to 271 kilotons of TNT.

The estimate was made by a team led by K. M. Sreejith of the Indian Space Research Organisation based on satellite observations.

The new estimate is more than double the 120 kilotons that were estimated by an international research team of U.S. and German scientists and published in Science Magazine last year.

If correct, the yield was 17 times as high as the 15-kiloton Hiroshima bomb of 1945. The outcome of the latest research was published in Geophysical Journal International.

The research team analyzed radar images taken by ALOS-2, a Japanese satellite, of the area in and around Mt. Mantap in North Hamgyong Province where the North conducted its sixth nuclear test.

According to the team, the base of the mountain moved a few meters immediately after the nuclear explosion and the flank of the mountaintop also moved 0.5 m. The blast occurred 540 m beneath the mountaintop.

Normally, scientists estimate the scale of an explosion by measuring seismic waves that occur immediately after a nuclear blast. But in the North's case they had to make an indirect estimate because it was difficult to obtain seismic data from test site.

"Satellite based radars are very powerful tools to gauge changes in earth surface, and allow us to estimate the location and yield of underground nuclear tests," Sreejith said. "In conventional seismology by contrast, the estimations are indirect and depend on the availability of seismic monitoring stations."

http://web.archive.org/web/20191118...e/data/html_dir/2019/11/18/2019111801792.html
http://archive.vn/uwRbA
​

Constraints on the location, depth and yield of the 2017 September 3 North Korean nuclear test from InSAR measurements and modelling

K M Sreejith, Ritesh Agrawal, A S Rajawat

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 220, Issue 1, January 2020, Pages 345–351, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz451

SUMMARY

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) conducted its sixth and largest affirmed underground nuclear test on 2017 September 3. Analysis of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data revealed detailed surface displacements associated with the nuclear explosion. The nuclear explosion produced large-scale surface deformation causing decorrelation of the InSAR data directly above the test site, Mt. Mantap, while the flanks of the Mountain experienced displacements up to 0.5 m along the Line-of-Sight of the Satellite. We determined source parameters of the explosion using the Bayesian inversion of the InSAR data. The explosive yield was estimated as 245–271 kiloton (kt) of TNT, while the previous yield estimations range from 70–400 kt. We determined the nuclear source at a depth of 542 ± 30 m below Mt. Mantap (129.0769°E, 41.0324°N). We demonstrated that the Bayesian modelling of the InSAR data reduces the uncertainties in the source parameters of the nuclear test, particularly the yield and source depth that are otherwise poorly resolved in seismic methods.

http://web.archive.org/web/20191116094213/https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/220/1/345/5584343
http://archive.ph/Xgo9V
​

I’m glad to see even with relations at a low the Iranians agree a table full of examples of cutting edge technology are with the US and not the Russians or Chinese.

 

[pakpride00090]

Suddenly, since about a week, a new timely hate campaign has been observed on the various sub-forums of PDF, and by the usual enemies of Iran-DPRK....

Coincidence? I think not!

This only reminds one of the 19th January 2019 "Batshit Iranian Regime Wants Their People To Think They Invented The Space Shuttle" thread, that ultimately backfired on the OP, when the opposite was achieved, as the readers were amazed by the new undisclosed powerful Iranian Heavy-Lift Space Launcher Safir-4.

Thus leaving no other choice to the OP but to close the said thread!


And here...the reason for such desperate move revealed:




North Korean H-Bomb Detonated On 3rd September 2017 Estimated At 245 To 271 Kilotons Of TNT

North Korean Nuke Test 'More Powerful Than Thought'

November 18, 2019 13:25

An Indian team of scientists has estimated the explosive yield of the nuclear weapon detonated by North Korea on Sept. 3, 2017 at 245 to 271 kilotons of TNT.

The estimate was made by a team led by K. M. Sreejith of the Indian Space Research Organisation based on satellite observations.

The new estimate is more than double the 120 kilotons that were estimated by an international research team of U.S. and German scientists and published in Science Magazine last year.

If correct, the yield was 17 times as high as the 15-kiloton Hiroshima bomb of 1945. The outcome of the latest research was published in Geophysical Journal International.

The research team analyzed radar images taken by ALOS-2, a Japanese satellite, of the area in and around Mt. Mantap in North Hamgyong Province where the North conducted its sixth nuclear test.

According to the team, the base of the mountain moved a few meters immediately after the nuclear explosion and the flank of the mountaintop also moved 0.5 m. The blast occurred 540 m beneath the mountaintop.

Normally, scientists estimate the scale of an explosion by measuring seismic waves that occur immediately after a nuclear blast. But in the North's case they had to make an indirect estimate because it was difficult to obtain seismic data from test site.

"Satellite based radars are very powerful tools to gauge changes in earth surface, and allow us to estimate the location and yield of underground nuclear tests," Sreejith said. "In conventional seismology by contrast, the estimations are indirect and depend on the availability of seismic monitoring stations."

http://web.archive.org/web/20191118...e/data/html_dir/2019/11/18/2019111801792.html
http://archive.vn/uwRbA
​

Constraints on the location, depth and yield of the 2017 September 3 North Korean nuclear test from InSAR measurements and modelling

K M Sreejith, Ritesh Agrawal, A S Rajawat

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 220, Issue 1, January 2020, Pages 345–351, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz451

SUMMARY

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) conducted its sixth and largest affirmed underground nuclear test on 2017 September 3. Analysis of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data revealed detailed surface displacements associated with the nuclear explosion. The nuclear explosion produced large-scale surface deformation causing decorrelation of the InSAR data directly above the test site, Mt. Mantap, while the flanks of the Mountain experienced displacements up to 0.5 m along the Line-of-Sight of the Satellite. We determined source parameters of the explosion using the Bayesian inversion of the InSAR data. The explosive yield was estimated as 245–271 kiloton (kt) of TNT, while the previous yield estimations range from 70–400 kt. We determined the nuclear source at a depth of 542 ± 30 m below Mt. Mantap (129.0769°E, 41.0324°N). We demonstrated that the Bayesian modelling of the InSAR data reduces the uncertainties in the source parameters of the nuclear test, particularly the yield and source depth that are otherwise poorly resolved in seismic methods.

http://web.archive.org/web/20191116094213/https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/220/1/345/5584343
http://archive.ph/Xgo9V
​

Are you really from NK ? or have NK ancestry ?