I don't either.
Recall recent reports of Syrian chem/bio technicians killed in the blast.
I think the assassination angle is a smokescreen to hide the WMD story.
That's what I am thinking as well. This is definitely a smoke screen.
I feel as you do.
Thanks for the ping, Tiger
Also pretty amazing that the North Koreans allegedly find the remains of the detonator in a blast that obliterated multi-ton rail cars. Better yet, watch the DPRK "trace" the phone to the U.S. or South Korea. If this story has any official backing, it will likely evolve into another U.S.-led conspiracy against the "Great Leader."
In the gulag known as North Korea, carrying out this sort of plot would have required extensive planning, coordination, and bribery, to access explosives, build detonators, place the bomb on the tracks, and time it so Kim's train is passing by when it explodes. The odds of such a plan reaching fruition are almost nil; the DPRK is a nation of informants, and you never know who might pass your name to the authorities.
One more thing: if Kim Jong-il had the slightest inclination that someone was trying to kill him, we would be getting word of wholesale arrests and "special" security measures around Pyongyang. So far, that hasn't happened.
The "assassination plot" is a convenient smoke screen to throw everyone off the trail of those Syrian technicians, and the train's mysterious cargo. Their presence--and that cargo--is the real story, not this alleged assassination plot. And, for what it's worth, no credible intelligence organization is putting nay stock in the assassination angle....
Why couldn't they both be true?
--Boot Hill
Yes!
..........where the train enters the tunnel and all the passengers are gassed and die, due to the negligence of the railroad workers, who in turn were so beaten down by the 'Collectivist' society that no one cared about their jobs anymore.........resulting in the devastating accident.
JMHO
My thoughts also. (Although, I can certainly understand why someone would want to assassinate Kim Jong Il...)