A new imagery report from 38North.org, a program run by Johns Hopkins’ U.S.-Korea Institute, shows activity at North Korea’s Punggye Nuclear Test Site. Recent commercial satellite imagery has identified two new tunnel entrances and continued excavation at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site. Excavation in the West Portal area, where North Korea’s 2009 and 2013 nuclear […]
A new imagery report from 38North.org, a program run by Johns Hopkins’ U.S.-Korea Institute, shows activity at North Korea’s Sohae satellite launch station. New commercial satellite imagery indicates North Korea probably tested a long-range rocket engine between 25 and 30 August 2013 at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station. This conclusion is based on analysis of imagery […]
By Raj Kumar On 27 Jul 2013, DPRK President Kim Jong-Un inaugurated the newly renovated “The Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum” in Pyongyang. The center attraction at the museum is a Cold War prize catch “USS Pueblo,” the US Navy’s Banner class ELINT and SIGINT technical research ship. The new location of the ship on […]
OSIMINT recently contributed a piece over at Medium’s State of Play collection on North Korea’s upcoming military parade taking place this year on 27JUL13. In light of that recent post, we would like to take a moment to spotlight the KPA Exhibition of Military Science and Technology co-located at North Korea’s Mirim Airport. The facility’s […]
By Raj Kumar There was an interesting development on 14 July 2013 at the port of Manzanillo near the Panama Canal. A ship named the Chong Chon Gang, a 14,000 dwt bulk carrier with a North Korean flag, was intercepted by Panamanian police on a tip off from its foreign intelligence counterparts. The ship, whose dubious past of three […]
After North Korea threatened to strike South Korea, Hawaii, Guam, and the continental United States, the Department of Defense announced last week that THAAD would be sent to the region in its first reported deployment in an operation. Alpha Battery, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment (THAAD), 11th Air Defense Brigade out of Fort Bliss, Texas […]
