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

Must be close to christmas...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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