Posted on 05/01/2017 7:02:00 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korea’s Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile Program: Are the Tests Poised to Accelerate?
By 38 North
01 May 2017
A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Joseph S. Bermudez Jr.
Commercial satellite imagery from April 19 has identified a second submersible test stand barge for North Korea’s submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) program at the Nampo Naval Shipyard, located on the country’s west coast. The barge appears identical in size (~9 m by 22.5 m) and layout to the original barge that was first seen in 2014 at the Sinpo South Shipyard on the country’s east coast, which has been involved in at least four, and maybe as many as six, launches of the Pukguksong-1 (KN-11) SLBM since then.
Both of these barges are very similar in size and layout to the old Russian PSD-4 submersible missile test stand barges. Barges such as these are used by navies to conduct underwater tests of new and modified submarine missile launch tubes and launch systems, as well as to conduct initial missile test launches before these systems are installed in a submarine. It is unclear if the new barge was acquired or manufactured by North Korea. However, a preliminary survey of the North’s naval shipyards on the west coast fails to show any indication of barge construction work during the past year, suggesting that this latest barge was acquired from abroad.
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Tiger, do you live nearby? Because I don’t want you to get hurt, but on the other hand, I just wish we would wax kim and get it over with.
Be a shame if something...umm...happened to it.
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Obama’s was told to call that policy “strategic patience”
How does a psycho killer get this technology?
Who is selling NK this technology?
Why would anyone sell NK this technology?
Could it be China are using NK and similarly Russia using Iran as a proxy to nuke the West and it’s interests?
We need to eliminate the NK and Iran threat and military strikes are the only way. Anything else only prolongs the inevitable.
How the hell has North Korea managed to build a massive military stockpile?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3545259/posts
Most likely China. For some reason, suddenly Chinese fingerprints had shown up everywhere a few years ago: launch vehicles, production equipment, missile components, and missile design.
Now they are trying to clamp down on it. Whatever their initial calculation was, it seems that it is not working out lately.
Nothing happens in NK without China’s tacit approval.
Not since 1950...
I hope Trump and our allies find a safe way out of this mess without the destruction of South Korea or even worse, spinning out of control into a world war.
Or so it’s being played by the “respected” leader Trump has looked into the eyes of and knows is a good man. Not Putie Poot this time, but x,y,z.
Exactly. !!
China are using NK and similarly Russia using Iran as a proxy to nuke the West
Their diesel subs could not get close enough to the US mainland undetected to launch a missile. They could possibly threaten Japan, South Korea and Guam and, in a pinch, Hawaii and Alaska.
Without a sub that can lug an SLBM across most of the Pacific North Korea's ability to launch is an empty threat to CONUS.
You don't succeed in NYC real estate development by trusting people. You succeed by manipulating them into believing you trust them so that you can get what you want.
It's a confidence game.
The U.S. is China's biggest trading partner. They don't want to nuke us, even via a proxy.
China and Russia are using NK and Iran, respectively, to achieve a balance of power in the world (as they perceive it).
They believe that this gives them more power and takes it away from the West.
And they were correct as long as the U.S. had weak leaders like Obama.
They want regime change. It's the only way.
Kim's entire raison d'etre is military. Kim's grip on power is all based on the military and its further development. He doesn't know anything else.
He's going down.
Ummm, didn’t Clinton and the democrats give technology to North Korea in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation? Or was it donations to the democrat slush fund?
Thanks for posting that link. Did not know NK had high quality coal, gold, silver, uranium, iron ore and rare earth metals.
That last parade kimunfat had, those trucks looked Chinese and Russian. Plus..who gave him those Mercedes limos?
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