Emergency aid arrives after train blast

Food, tents and other emergency aid from China arrived today in North Korea to help it recover from a devastating train explosion that killed more than 160 people, about half of them children in a school torn apart by the blast.

Aid workers who were the first outsiders to reach the disaster site in the secretive Communist country this weekend recounted seeing huge craters, twisted rail tracks, rubble and scorched buildings following Thursday’s explosion in Ryongchon, near the Chinese border.