Twitter’s Anniversary Notification has reminded me that I put together a small satellite imagery management project, SinpoSatBot, six years ago to win an argument on Twitter. It seems like a good time to do a postmortem on whether it was…
North Korea's mobile target ship gets modified for use as a floating missile target with the addition of radar reflectors.
North Korea's new SSB assembly location is identified at second construction hall.
Studying North Korea’s ballistic missile program with satellite imagery requires knowing what type of activities to look for, identifying the locations related to missile development and testing, and monitoring those sites to track changes or activities as they happen. When…
New satellite images show massive factory being build at the Kusong Tank Plant.
This article was co-authored with Jeffrey Lewis, who pulled the historical documents and made the connection between the KN05 and the Styx storage site. North Korea has air-launched cruise missiles, and it looks like they store them at an airfield…
Recent satellite images obtained by Planet Labs shows construction activity at the suspected submarine training facility located at the North Korean city of Sinpo. As previously published in NK News, North Korea appears to have built a larger submarine training…
My colleague Olivia Vassalotti is back with another guest post, this time with an update on the recent activities of Glocom, a North Korean intelligence-linked company selling military communications technology overseas. It’s a must-read for anyone interested in North Korea’s…
My colleagues Catherine Dill, Cameron Trainer and I were reminded when looking at satellite imagery of Nampo, taken yesterday morning, that North Korea’s evasive tactics are successfully keeping the country’s coal and iron exporters in business. Prior to being sanctioned by the UN,…
In post-summit comments, the President indicated that the DPRK had agreed to destroy a “missile engine testing site,” which the U.S. identified “because of the heat.” This has brought up the question of which site does he mean? Dave Schmerler did…
