Commercial satellite imagery shows that North Korea is building an unknown type of vessel at a key shipyard that is also being used to equip submarines for missile tests, according to an analysis by 38 North.
The respected Johns Hopkins University website dedicated to analysis of North Korea adds that space images taken on September 21 indicate that previous work suggesting an imminent submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test have been put on hold.
“Given the continued movement of components in the parts yards, a shipbuilding program is probably underway although the type of vessel remains unknown,” 38 North analyst Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. wrote of the activity at North Korea’s Sinpo South Shipyard.
At the same time, Bermudez said: “There are no activities suggesting either previous or forthcoming ejection tests at the facility’s test stand.” Bermudez has been analyzing imagery of the site and reported earlier that an SLBM test from a special barge located at the shipyard might occur soon.
Bermudez cautioned, however, that a SINPO-class submarine, submersible test stand barge and nearby test stand at the site “appear capable of supporting a test at any time of Pyongyang’s choosing.”
North Korea is focusing on developing submarines that can launch nuclear-tipped missiles at the US and its allies.
Maybe a quickie surface ship, armed with multiple ICBM’s, disguised as a container ship or oil tanker? A nuclear "Q" ship?
If the U.S., Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and others can do it, why not North Korea ?
Because chubby is a lunatic
nestor zamora it is a real pity that the north kotran people can not eat submarines or nuclear waste that is why those you named can aford it and food for thier people
north korea is the most isolated place on earth there are more trafic in the northpole than in the whole north korea
For Sure
Our world is about to be destroyed in a nuclear war.
Leslie Keith Matsikidze i think the Trump is the more insane to threaten NoKor. NoKor has every right to defend itself while the U.S. have no reason to attack NoKor.
North Korea has already recovered from the embargoes led by the U.S. and it’s now embarking on building metropolitan cities, and yes, submarines and ICBMs for a surprise. You should go there and see, and not believe U.S. propaganda.
It’s because they don’t need so many cars. Their housing units are just across their factories and offices. They have a planned economy, unlike the U.S. where everything is left to the capitalists’ greed for profit.
Leslie Keith Matss u behav like a slav
Another thing, there is a study that half of the American people are going below the poverty line.
north korea is the last country which is living comply all needs by it’s self
Stop dreaming. When was the last time you visited DPRK! They are well off!
The world can never i repeat never be destroyed by man because it was created to stand for ever.
Daniel Macaulley agree. we are just dust in the wind.
i think berygood . if can not make icbm or rocket ritenow benish n koria like iraq ,seriya ,afgan .he is cureate.
Nestor I appreciate yr comments on this issue. But why would you take a blade or knife away from your kids?
I guess the answer is because they cant handle it well. Beside, i have taught students from North and South korea and it is sad for you to hear some of their experiences way back home. Poverty is rife and the gov’t doesnt care…most spending are on military wares than even standard/cost of living of it inhabitants. It is a master and slave country type. God help us…for we have become so greedy that we dont have feeling for a fellow human beings.
Haaaaa you right please
Leslie Keith Matsikidze But most nations have lunatic to crazy Presidents and extremist leaders. What can u make of US, Nigeria, UK, .. Before it was only Iraq, Iran, Libya, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Uganda, …
Nestor Zamora, I wonder where are you getting all of that beatifull info. about NK. you must be joking!
Is it a joke? Do you realy know what you’re saying?
Good move
Leslie Keith Matsikidze If he is indeed, why has he not lunch USA & her allies?
Interesting comments. Food/no food, traffic/no traffic, poverty etc etc. I think the real question is how come one country or for arguments sake a group of countries that combined own thousands of nukes can DEMAND from another country that they stop and dismantle their nuclear program.
just in case you did not know………………. we are still at war with North Korea
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The country that possesses thousands of nukes and only that country has used it over innocent civilians demanding others to stop producing it!! What a irony!!
North Korea should be left alone to do their own things,because the world as we know,is turning up to be owned by one nation.And I think it would be too bad to go that way for a single nation.
Nester, Do you really have to ask why dpnk shouldn’t have nukes ?
I think Nester is ignorant of whats going on in DPNK.
Leslie Keith Matsikidze what world leader isnt … trump ?
So those sanctions are really biting deep … lets build a ship boys … heck we in canada can barely afford that … bc buys used ferrys from germany and new from poland … ask trump to put some sanctions on us too … not just these silly anti dumping duties …
Maybe our ship builders will get some work … wait submarines ? I wonder if they settled for used british clunkers too
Nestor Zamora please keep saying the truth and God will bless u. Americans are the most wicked people in the world. They have engineered military coups across Latin American and Africa to regimes who are in their disfovour. They are killing presidents and distabilizing sovereign countries . They killed Ghadafi and left Libya in a very worrisome state. Their CIA masterminded the assassination of their own president JFK because he didn’t want to follow the dirty polices of the CIA. America will one day be burnt down completely into ashes.
Maybe mr.zamora ur misinformed of whats really happening in nokor. US is not meddling in nokor’s affairs, not until kim started bragging & threatening the US with his missiles, that word wars began.
Esteban Fox You better read articles other than what you see at Fox Channel. There are recent witnesses on the developments in North Korea. And Just think about this. For so long, after the supposed end of the Korean War up to now, there was not a single upheaval in the North. Compare that observation with the case of the U.S, China, and Russia. So, who is governing better ? Whose people are more contented ? After so much agitation from the West, still, the North Koreans stand united, built a strong nation, developed agriculture and industry, distributed the fruits of their labor equitably, and prepared earnestly to defend their country. So how about that ? A very small nation standing up to the big powers and there’s nothing they can do stop its march. This is the reason why the big powers want to destroy it . It is the best example of how to develop a strong, democratic, and just society even in the face of unprecedented pressures and blackmail.
Elvis Kobina Donkoh And why would you not take the Sword of Damocles from the hands of a crazy president who wants to rule at the expense of the multitude ? Prove to me that we are better off than North Korea, that we are not hounded by unemployment, homelessness, crime and corruption, incompetent governance, racial tensions, and an unending struggle for power.
‘kill the head and you kill the body’ like in boxing. a south korean can do it to eliminate his fellow north korean who sends fireworks across the ocean and not in its territory. never mind if manila is targeted, they will open the gates of hell sure danbrown? it is only a US ally and has internal problems, so more troubles if it gets involved like sending soldiers to Noko in ’50 to ’53 war when I was grader.
Nestor Zamora
if north korea will open its border for his people we will know how many will leaving thier country and it is answer if nk is progresive
Leslie Keith Matsikidze and trump isn’t?
……… and that country wich has killed more foreign innocent civilians then terrorists in so called war againt terrorism.
Nestor Zamora they learned from Venezuela?
We just didn’t exterminate over 100 million like the communists
Because Nestor, as you obviously haven’t noticed, a nuclear arms reduction agreement has been brought about, and until Kim jong-un came along, no-one was actively ignoring that and also threatening to develop and use them against another country.
Augustine S. Tobai What, the ones you were allowed to see?
Esteban Fox I think Nestor is just an NK mouthpiece.
Daniel Macaulley Odd you should have the same name as the Book. When it starts happening Daniel, if by then you are of that same opinion, some advice. Bend over, put your head between your knees, and kiss your A#s goodbye.
Nestor Zamora What factories and offices would they be Nestor? The ones they’re working at 24hrs a day to produce rockets and nuclear weapons at? Some glorious future for the ordinary people of NK, producing weaponry that because of the belicosity of it’s leaders will bring total destruction down on them because not only will the US not let it get to the point NK is able to achieve that against them, but also China and Russia will also turn against NK, as they are now doing. You are living in a fools dream Nestor if you and yours continue down this path. That is not a threat Nestor, but a statement of inevitability. Recognise it for North Korea’s sake.
Bermudez cautioned, however, that a SINPO-class submarine, submersible test stand barge and nearby test stand at the site “appear capable of supporting a test at any time of Pyongyang’s choosing.”
North Korea is focusing on developing submarines that can launch nuclear-tipped missiles at the US and its allies.
In comment to this, I would suggest, a successful test, fired across Japan, or into even the Sea of Japan, will be the last rocket launch NK will conduct in peacetime, this is where North Korea will meet it’s doom. No if’s, no buts. I do not believe even Russia or China will excuse or accept this.
Raymond William Tinkler Who made the provocative threats first ? Since the end of the Korean War, the U.S. has continuously mass up troops on the border of North Korea, openly and unabashedly agitating the Northerners to topple their govt, held huge invasionary military exercises. If you are a leader in the North, wouldn’t you prepare your country for a war of aggression by the U.S. The U.S. would topple any govt they don’t like. Look at Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, etc. They do not have strategic defensive weapons so that the U.S. just came ravaging their countries.