New North Korean Missile Base
Satellite photographs suggest that an advanced North Korean missile launchpad is now operational, the Associated Press reported yesterday.
The photographs, published Wednesday by the company DigitalGlobe, show debris on the launchpad at the new Tongchang-ri missile base. However, that debris might have been deliberately placed there to make analysts believe the site was still being built, said Tim Brown, a senior fellow with GlobalSecurity.org.
The launchpad itself appears to be in working order, Brown said.
Tongchang-ri is the North’s most sophisticated missile base to date. The site has been under construction for almost a decade, and it features a 10-story tower designed to accommodate long-range ballistic missiles. The launchpad at Tongchang-ri is movable and capable of testing multiple missiles within a short period of time
(Pamela Hess, Associated Press/Google News, June 4).
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Nuke it and be done.
better yet, leave it operational and crack their missile launch computer and change each missile’s launch coordinates to pyong and others.