North Korea seen upgrading missile launch facility

[webfact]

N. Korea seen upgrading missile launch facility
Shin Hyon-hee
The Korea Herald

SEOUL North Korea appears to be nearing completion of a project to extend a launch pad at the missile site on its west coast, a military source said Wednesday, boosting the possibility for another rocket liftoff later this year.

A new gantry topping 60 metres was spotted at the Dongchang-ri station, where the communist state successfully fired a long-range rocket in December 2012, the source said. It marks an upgrade from the previous 50-metre-tall pad.

Citing satellite imagery, the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said in late May that the construction work “essentially” ended, improving the gantry to support a space launch vehicle larger than the already tested 30-metre-long Unha-3.

“The work has apparently almost finished, though the exact size of the pad is to be further confirmed,” a Seoul official said, pointing to SAIS’ analysis.

The advancement shores up speculation that the Kim Jong-un regime may stage a provocation as it celebrates the 70th anniversary of the founding of its ruling Workers’ Party on October 10.

Full story: http://www.asianewsnet.net/news-78488.html


-- ANN 2015-07-23

[slipperylobster]

Must be close to christmas...

they are looking for more trade concessions...and gifts.

[baboon]

I am on the same page as you. It has been seen because the DPRK authorities want it to be seen.

[dabhand]

Maybe they are needing to build a rocket big enough to carry the 0.03% of the population who failed to cast their vote in the recent election

[Seastallion]

I'm on a different page.

There's just too much reporting of hinting of NK's potential aggression.

I think we are being led into getting behind something that will hurt a lot of innocent North Koreans.

The WOMD cry wolf worked once with the ignorant rednecks getting behind it, with disastrous outcomes. Lets hope they can't be duped again.

[copa8]

Had he been still alive, maybe could've sent this guy into NK. He had 1,200+ firearms and 6.5+ tons of ammo...dam!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3172296/It-s-worse-Twilight-Zone-movie-Decomposing-body-car-hidden-5M-gun-arsenal-missing-mother-two-believed-dead-man-alien-secret-agent-sent-save-human-race.html

[FangFerang]

Had he been still alive, maybe could've sent this guy into NK. He had 1,200+ firearms and 6.5+ tons of ammo...dam!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3172296/It-s-worse-Twilight-Zone-movie-Decomposing-body-car-hidden-5M-gun-arsenal-missing-mother-two-believed-dead-man-alien-secret-agent-sent-save-human-race.html

DM blocked without VPN anonymous

[FangFerang]

I am on the same page as you. It has been seen because the DPRK authorities want it to be seen.

It is a little difficult to hide a gantry, especially one that is 80 m tall.

[baboon]

Quite, but it is not about the gantry, it is the message it is sending..

[copa8]

Had he been still alive, maybe could've sent this guy into NK. He had 1,200+ firearms and 6.5+ tons of ammo...dam!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3172296/It-s-worse-Twilight-Zone-movie-Decomposing-body-car-hidden-5M-gun-arsenal-missing-mother-two-believed-dead-man-alien-secret-agent-sent-save-human-race.html

DM blocked without VPN anonymous

Here are the headlines:

• Man identified as 60-year-old Jeffrey Alan Lash, of LA County, died July 4 but wasn't found until July 17
• Body was discovered badly decomposed inside a car in Pacific Palisades
• Lash's fiancee Catherine Nebron and her employee Dawn VadBunker dumped the body
• Police linked the car to Lash's fiancee's house nearby and found 1,200 guns and 6.5 tons of ammunition
• Fiancee's attorney said Nebron and VadBunker believed Lash was half-alien savior
• VadBunker and Nebron fled for Oregon without telling police about Lash's death because they thought CIA would come to collect his body
• VadBunker's mother reported her missing last week after failing to reach her

[ableguy]

The way they issue threats they are in clear danger of being turned into a glass parking lot. Just launch one nuke and goodbye.