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To: TigerLikesRooster

Can one see these missile sites from Google Earth? If so, anyone have the coordinates?


40 posted on 07/12/2006 7:57:00 AM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: SoftballMominVA
Re #40

I think so. I don't know the coordinates, though. Sorry.:)

50 posted on 07/12/2006 8:19:47 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: SoftballMominVA
If you are using Google Earth, and you can put gridmarks in there and plot out the lat. and long. grids (check box found under "View"), well, you can find the Taepodong launch site complete with the shadow of the rocket tower, at approximately the following:

N40Deg 51'21.24" and E129Deg 39'58.5" --or thereabouts....

It is just in the rolling hills, a few miles due northwest of a curving inlet bay on the Sea of Japan/East Sea that looks similar to Monterey (Cal) bay.... to the slight west of this is the range control facility, and to the north of it missile assembly facility.

Regarding the Scud/Nodong sites, one might have a little more difficult time using Google, looking around in eastern Gangwondo Province of North Korea near the port of Wonsan.

Here, this old B/W photo--without missile facilities of course, will help on finding the seaside inlet/bay to then trace up to the launch site a short distance away:


52 posted on 07/12/2006 8:50:15 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (A few clever bones tossed on gay unions, flag burning & Iraq still don't absolve GWB over BORDERS)
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To: SoftballMominVA
On Google Earth, to coordinates of the most obvious (to me anyhow) launch complex is the vicinity of 40 d 51' 04" North 129 d 40' 56" East. I find it interesting to google most any North Korean town and then do the same with any Japanese, South Korean, or other free nation town. The contrast is startling even from above -- where would you choose to live.
53 posted on 07/12/2006 8:54:55 AM PDT by JimSEA (America cannot have an exit strategy from the world.)
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