Chinese doctors on the border of North Korea have been told to prepare for thousands of casualities.
Thousands.

And North Korea hasn’t admitted there has been a collision yet.
They didn’t count on cell phones and debris landing 19 kilometres across the border into China. Some of that debris could well be body parts.

I was watching the news tonight and there were two other peices that caught my attention. One was the anger in Britian over the CBS program “48 Hours.”
The other was the firing of a US Maytag worker over displeasure at taking photos of the bodies of military personnel being returned home from Iraq.

It also violated a federal government policy that prohibits publishing images of military coffins out of respect for the families of the dead soldiers.

The rule was adopted in 1991, at the time of the first Gulf War.

We pay a price for being wired and having open communication.
North Korea is a static state with controlled media.
Very literally - the messenger could be shot.

As for the anger in the UK and the US, the price of open communication and eye witnesses speaking or photographing can be high.
Death and grieving is not pretty.