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Thursday, September 11, 2008

N. Korea has quietly built long-range missile base


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North Korea has quietly built a long-range missile base that is larger and more capable than an older and well-known launch pad for intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to independent analysts relying on new satellite images of the site and other data. Analysts provided images of the previously secret site to The Associated Press.

"The primary purpose of the facility is to test," Bermudez told The Associated Press in an interview last week. A base capable of a long-range test could obviously be used in wartime to launch a missile that carried a warhead.

Bermudez is also unveiling the images on the defense web site Janes.com and in the Sept. 17 edition of Jane‘s Defence Weekly.

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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous11/9/08 10:26

    The Google map is pointing to the wrong location.

    Correct Map

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  2. Unknown11/9/08 16:39

    Thanks for the heads-up, as you can see it has been corrected.

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