Well it took two months—I complained in August—but the New York Times finally released the lat/long for the P’unggye-yok test site. Google views of the tunneling area, near 41.279 degrees north latitude and 129.087 east longitude, show a set of…
Pick a test site. Any test site. From the Korea Herald The Seoul government is now working closely with U.S. intelligence agencies on identifying the North’s possible test site. [snip] However, all acquired intelligence has been dependent on statements by…
Dave Kang—Associate Professor in the Government Department at Dartmouth and Managing the Atom Research Associate—sends along his thoughts on North Korea’s announcement of an impending North Korean nuclear test: Will North Korea actually test? What do they hope to get…
By now, you’ve probably heard that the DPRK has announced its intention to conduct a nuclear test. (The BBC has a translation of the Korean statement; the original is here.) The money line is: The DPRK Foreign Ministry is authorized…
ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports that North Korea is “unloading of large reels of cable outside P’unggye-yok, an underground facility in northeast North Korea [that] can be used in nuclear testing to connect an underground test site to outside observation…
Friend of Wonk Jacqueline Shire sends this dispatch from the UN Security Council as the members-states consider what to do about North Korea: Eloise at the Security Council I’ve often wished that Kay Thompson were alive so that she and…
CNN is quoting “a senior State Department official” as saying North Korea conducted “an apparently unsuccessful test” of the Taepodong 2 “that failed in flight.” Can’t wait for the details. (I guess this means the Dear Leader isn’t watching the…
Mikio Ikuma, Deputy International Editor of Yomiuiri Shimbun, calling for a strike on North Korea: Strike: Chastise That Naughty Boy! Tokyo, Japan—North Korea has been toying with dangerous weapons for so long, wrongly hoping that it can intimidate neighboring grown-ups.…
The Flat Earth Society has a foothold in the Wall Street Journal editorial page: It’s possible we’ll wake up to the news that Pyongyang has tested the long-range ballistic missile that is fully fueled and which U.S. satellites have monitored…
I’ve been a little reluctant to write about the preparations for the Taepodong 2 launch. The press—especially the Japanese press—is filled with a huge amount of disinformation that really complicates things. Japanese news sources reported that North Korean television told…
