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Satellite Photos of N. Korean Explosion(low resolution, taken on 09/15)
Chosun Ilbo ^ | 09/15/04 | N/A

Posted on 09/14/2004 11:55:41 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Satellite Photos taken by S. Korean Satellite Arirang 1

Resolution: 6.6m
Taken between 10:59-11:01am, Sept. 15, 2004

Note: Yong-jo-ri is known to have a missile base. Hu-chang is a probable blast site.

09/26/2000

09/15/2004



Upper Rectangle: Hu-chang

Lower Rectangle: Yong-jo-ri


Yong-jo-ri 1


Yong-jo-ri 2


Hu-chang 1


Hu-chang 2



TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blastsite; explosion; nkorea; northkorea; photo; whoops
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1 posted on 09/14/2004 11:55:42 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; OahuBreeze; yonif; risk; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 09/14/2004 11:56:18 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Boot Hill; gandalftb; eastforker

Ping!


3 posted on 09/14/2004 11:57:25 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Those dark spots look more like cloud shadows than blast areas. But who knows...


4 posted on 09/15/2004 12:00:48 AM PDT by DB (©)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Besides the blast only measuring 2.6 on the Richter Scale, we can pretty well conclude that even the nutty NK wouldn't detonate a test nuke in that populated area.

The AWB Has Expired - Gun Owners Have Won Again For All Americans!

5 posted on 09/15/2004 12:02:50 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

"we can pretty well conclude that even the nutty NK wouldn't detonate a test nuke in that populated area."

I dunno about that!!!!!


6 posted on 09/15/2004 12:05:25 AM PDT by jlasoon
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To: TigerLikesRooster
It may be the light, but in the Yong-jo-ri 1 pair, the 9/15 photo seems to be misssing a terrain feature present in the lower left 1/4 of the older picture.

The hill in the bowl like valley, the ridge leading to it, and the road on the ridge seem to be missing.

7 posted on 09/15/2004 12:05:57 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (This tagline is subject to change without notice.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I think they blew sumthin' up by accident...again.


8 posted on 09/15/2004 12:06:36 AM PDT by dasboot (<img src="XXX">)
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To: dasboot

I don't even know what to think


9 posted on 09/15/2004 12:09:01 AM PDT by jlasoon
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To: jlasoon

Well, the area'a pretty developed, and I see no evidence of topographical change. My best guess is a test of the mother of all fuel/air bombs. Or an accidental detonation of something similar. Technicians should heed the 'no smoking' signs.


10 posted on 09/15/2004 12:18:20 AM PDT by dasboot (<img src="XXX">)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I give up, nothing noticable to me that would indicate an above ground detonation

Where's Waldo?

11 posted on 09/15/2004 12:18:58 AM PDT by TeleStraightShooter (Sorry Kerry, you're 3 decimal places adrift: 3,000,000 not 3,000 "displaced"/murdered SE Asians)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Someone talk to me like I'm five years old and explain what these pictures show. All I can see is a big black cloud on the second picture on the right side. Is there a big hole somewhere? Wasn't the NK explanation that they were removing a mountain for a hydroelectric project?


12 posted on 09/15/2004 12:19:13 AM PDT by DC Bound
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To: jlasoon
always remember to take a towel.
13 posted on 09/15/2004 12:21:12 AM PDT by phxaz (w: 7 minutes of composure. kerry: 37 minutes of paralysis.)
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To: DC Bound

Theres gotta be a better satelite picture then this somewhere. You can't see much on these.


14 posted on 09/15/2004 12:21:17 AM PDT by jlasoon
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To: jlasoon

I gots a quession!

If Kim is making some MAJOR hydro electric plant, why does he need nuclear power? The country as poor as it is can not use that much electricity.

All this is pure speculation on my part. But I think is has some merit.


15 posted on 09/15/2004 12:24:31 AM PDT by BookaT (Didn't Kerry say in his book he was willing to DIE for his country? Well?)
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To: BookaT

He doesn't actually need a nuclear power plant. But Dick Cheney and Haliburton secretly contacted him in the 90's, telling him that in 2004 the Republicans would need a diversion in the election. Kim, sensing a set up, agreed to the sinister plot. However, he also recorded his suspicions on a secret "memo to self"....


16 posted on 09/15/2004 12:30:04 AM PDT by DC Bound
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To: BookaT

No one has stated this here or in the media....

I believe that the TNT set off (estimated to be 1000 tons of TNT) for the same reason that the US set off 1000 tons of TNT prior to the detonation of our first A-bomb: We needed a metric for the size of our atomic blast.

That's were we get the terms 'mega-ton' or the equal of 1000 tons of TNT.


17 posted on 09/15/2004 12:31:45 AM PDT by Peter J. Huss
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I guess you have to be a CIA agent to think this is anything other than a bunch of meaningless pictures.


18 posted on 09/15/2004 12:32:08 AM PDT by microgood
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To: Peter J. Huss

Sounds good. Is there something about the signature of 1000 tons in NK that is different than the rest of the world that other scientists' numbers wouldn't work? What is being measured that they would have to do this themselves?


19 posted on 09/15/2004 12:36:40 AM PDT by DC Bound
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To: TeleStraightShooter

Fuel/air bombs are detonated in the atmosphere. And we got some bigguns that have compared to small tactical nukes, blowup-wise.


20 posted on 09/15/2004 12:37:04 AM PDT by dasboot (<img src="XXX">)
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