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China-Japan-Koreas
N.Korea Building Bigger Missile Launch Pad
2012-05-25
North Korea is constructing a new ballistic-missile launch pad in Musudan-ri, North Hamgyong Province, experts claimed Wednesday.

The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, on its blog Wednesday, claimed the new launch pad is for intercontinental missiles aimed at the U.S. and suggested a possible link with Iran. It said the facility can accommodate a more advanced missile than the rocket whose launch failed in February.
So the Norks can have a more advanced failure...
The institute analyzed images taken by the commercial satellite Digital Globe on April 29 and said the new facility is being built 1.75 km east of the existing facility in Musudan-ri. The facility is twice the size of existing facilities in Musuan-ri and Tongchang-ri and has a bigger flame trench, launch pad and storage facility for fuel oxidizers.

Construction started last summer, the institute said, and predicted it will be operational in 2016 or 2017. It said the assembly plant at the new site is similar in design to Iran's Missile and Space Center at Semnan.

The Choson Sinbo, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper in Japan, quoted the chief of the Tongchang-ri launch facility as saying on April 16 that the North has "specific plans to launch a satellite not only at the Tongchang-ri site, but at Musudan-ri as well."
Posted by:Steve White

#9  Did not...IFF.
Posted by: canalzone   2012-05-25 23:32  

#8  Huh huh, you said Sanitary Pad.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-05-25 23:17  

#7  Wull...Duh! Apologies...
Posted by: canalzone   2012-05-25 23:04  

#6  "Snazzy Pad" has a nice creative ring to it; with a subtle sanitary commercial appeal.

It just might work!
Posted by: canalzone   2012-05-25 22:42  

#5  "Snazzy Pad" has a nice creative ring to it; with a subtle sanitary commercial appeal.

It just might work!
Posted by: canalzone   2012-05-25 22:37  

#4  It said the facility can accommodate a more advanced missile than the rocket whose launch failed in February.
So the Norks can have a more advanced failure...

Excuse me, but this is just so blatantly Freudian. Lay out massive cash for a bigger, more expensive, snazzy pad . . . when the problem is the rocket.
Posted by: RandomJD   2012-05-25 19:20  

#3  So when their rocket goes KABOOM they wont get hurt?
It will you know.
Posted by: Recneck Jim   2012-05-25 11:36  

#2  it's a sock puppet
Posted by: Recneck Jim   2012-05-25 11:33  

#1  And a PAKISTANI LINK???

* FYI DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > HERE'S PROOF [Photos]: PAKISTAN IS ACCELERATING STRATEGIC NUCLEAR WORK/PROCESSES, espec vee dev of "small/
miniature nuclear warheads".

* SAME > PAKISTAN ACKNOWLEDGES SEA-BASED STARTEGIC NUCLEAR DETERRENT, as ostensib based on Pak's new "BABUR" TLCM/NLCMS.

Pak does desire LR FBM/SLBM capability one day.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-05-25 00:27  

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