North Korea Building Rocket Sites For Its Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

Satellite Shows Second North Korea Missile Site -- MSNBC

Analyst: It suggests intent to develop nuclear threat against U.S.

WASHINGTON - 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.

Construction on the site on North Korea's west coast began at least eight years ago, according to Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr., senior analyst with Jane's Information Group, and Tim Brown with Talent-keyhole.com, a private satellite imagery analysis company. Bermudez first located the site in early spring and they have tracked its construction using commercial and unclassified satellite imagery.

"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.

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My Comment: This is an ominous development. North Korea is not building a rocket base to launch astronauts into space. This is a base to send rockets with payloads that will cause severe damage on where they hit.

Since it would not make sense to build a base to launch missiles with conventional explosives, one will have to assume that the payloads would either be chemical, biological, or nuclear. I will let the reader figure out who the target will be.