As President Obama chats and smiles with China’s President Hu, South Korea’s Chosun has an alarming report concerning China’s construction of a massive underground tunnel to store and hide nuclear weapons. The goal is not only to conceal the size of their nuclear arsenal but also to create a system whereby they could “survive” a nuclear strike. Be sure to read the whole report. An excerpt:
“The Chinese Army is believed to have built an underground ‘Great Wall’ that stretches for more than 5,000 km in the Hebei region of northern China. Citing the People’s Liberation Army’s official newsletter, the Ta Kung Pao daily of Hong Kong on Saturday said China’s strategic missile squadron, the Second Artillery Division, built a massive underground tunnel to conceal nuclear weapons, including the Dongfeng 5 intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of 13,000 km.
Since 1995, the Second Artillery Division has mobilized tens of thousands of soldiers to build a network of tunnels stretching for more than 5,000 km below the mountain regions of Hebei, China’s state-run CCTV reported. “A missile base has been built hundreds of meters underground and can withstand several nuclear attacks,” CCTV said. “People refer to the network of tunnels connecting to the missile base as the ‘Underground Great Wall.'” In March 2008, CCTV broadcast a documentary which revealed that the PLA had been building underground facilities enabling it to launch a counterstrike in case of a nuclear attack.”
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