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Satellite Photos of N. Korean Explosion(low resolution, taken on 09/15)
Chosun Ilbo ^ | 09/15/04 | N/A

Posted on 09/14/2004 11:55:41 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Satellite Photos taken by S. Korean Satellite Arirang 1

Resolution: 6.6m
Taken between 10:59-11:01am, Sept. 15, 2004

Note: Yong-jo-ri is known to have a missile base. Hu-chang is a probable blast site.

09/26/2000

09/15/2004



Upper Rectangle: Hu-chang

Lower Rectangle: Yong-jo-ri


Yong-jo-ri 1


Yong-jo-ri 2


Hu-chang 1


Hu-chang 2



TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blastsite; explosion; nkorea; northkorea; photo; whoops
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To: JasonC

Ping. Expert analysis?


21 posted on 09/15/2004 12:38:39 AM PDT by dasboot (<img src="XXX">)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; BurbankKarl; FairOpinion

Terrorism and sabotage against hydro-electric dams

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:mlnPW4Nsf1oJ:www.nupi.no/IPS/%3F/module%3DFiles%3Baction%3DFile.getFile%3BID%3D1143/+chinese+protecting+dams+against+terrorism&hl=en&ie=UTF-8


22 posted on 09/15/2004 12:55:33 AM PDT by JustPiper (The Feds should memorialize Ritz Katz not investigate her!)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Smokin...BINGO!...We have a winnah!

II was not my mos but I worked pretty close with some of them a few times. Something appears to have cratered out the area btween the top road and the rifgeline toad. Its pretty shadowed but it looks like all topo features are no longer extant in the new photo. Due to the lack of visibility I can't asses the amount of cratering. But it looks like a soup bowl is now where there once was hilly terrain. I'd also say there is one hell of a lot of blast damage to the structures that once were in that area...a hell of a lot!

23 posted on 09/15/2004 1:59:58 AM PDT by Khurkris (Proud Scottish/HillBilly - We perfected "The Art of the Grudge")
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To: Khurkris

Cloud shadow. There are a couple other examples in the same photo.


24 posted on 09/15/2004 2:08:11 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Tourette's syndrome is just a $&#$*!% excuse for poor *%$#** language skills.)
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To: Khurkris

Cloud shadow. There are a couple other examples in the same photo.


25 posted on 09/15/2004 2:08:35 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Tourette's syndrome is just a $&#$*!% excuse for poor *%$#** language skills.)
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To: Peter J. Huss

Quickie math lesson:

KILO = thousand, as in one thousand tons of TNT.

MEGA = million, as in one million tons of TNT.

Then there's giga, tera, on up to google (yes really), and it goes farther, but I'm getting tired.


26 posted on 09/15/2004 2:39:14 AM PDT by Don W (...and He looked down from the cross and said, "It is done".)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Calpernia; Revel; jerseygirl; lacylu; Velveeta; StillProud2BeFree

Tiger, thank you for your ping to the Photos.


27 posted on 09/15/2004 3:14:04 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (On this day your Prayers are needed!!!!!!!)
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To: ASA Vet
Yep, its dark in there. As I said, it may be the light.

I did monkey with the pictures with ArcSoft Photo studio, and changed brightness and contrast. I got the ridge in the eastern depression and the east side road on the central N-S Ridge to come out pretty well. It appears also as if some of the terrain feature is present, but the buildings on the lighter photo appear to be gone.

That could be from other causes, not just catastrophic, as the images are 4 yrs apart if I can go by the dates.

Vegetation on the south slope of the westward extending ridge appears to be present, judging by the light areas, and assuming (always dangerous) that the vegetation did not grow in the light areas because of water, soil, of geological concerns there.

You would think any major explosion would either destroy or obscure that.

I wish there were better images, but I think you may be right.

Next time I'll play with the images first.

28 posted on 09/15/2004 5:17:49 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (This tagline is subject to change without notice.)
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To: Khurkris
See post 39. If you snag the image and really monkey with it, using photo enhancement software (play with brightness and contrast), I think ASA Vet may be right.

The images do not cover exactly the same area, either, and this lends to the initial appearance of a missing ridge finger. I didn't see the buildings, but those could have been moved/dismantled in 4 years.

Use your cursor to gauge the distance from the central ridge to the west (X number of cursor widths) and you'll see what I mean. Wish the resolution was better, but this is what we have.

Back to the drawing board....

29 posted on 09/15/2004 5:27:19 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (SEE! The shadows are proof this is a 'black' project!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

If you are building a nuclear device in a bunker far underground and it explodes, you have just conducted an underground test.

The resulting terrain changes become Earthwork or mountain removal.


30 posted on 09/15/2004 5:28:03 AM PDT by bert (Peace is only halftime !)
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To: Khurkris
"area btween the top road and the rifgeline toad"

Those nuclear toads make you spell funny.

31 posted on 09/15/2004 5:58:03 AM PDT by boris (The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a Leftist with a word processor)
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To: Smokin' Joe
well...like I said...I was never an II...didn't even play one on TV....lol. I still am tempted to go with some of my initial readings. Another things...looking at how the shadows are falling

Seems like there should be other pics available on the net. There is a whole passle of sat photo's on the net now. Somebody must have diverted one ove this AO to scoop this. Check the French. Although those may be subscription sites. Will try to freepmail an image to you

32 posted on 09/15/2004 6:01:34 AM PDT by Khurkris (Proud Scottish/HillBilly - We perfected "The Art of the Grudge")
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To: boris

whatta ya mean I smell funny...?


33 posted on 09/15/2004 6:03:45 AM PDT by Khurkris (Proud Scottish/HillBilly - We perfected "The Art of the Grudge")
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To: Peter J. Huss
Um, 1,000 tons is a kiloton, a megaton is 1,000,000 tons.
34 posted on 09/15/2004 6:19:30 AM PDT by JasonC
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To: Smokin' Joe
Sorry, I don't see it. The picture margins are different - 9/26 goes farther to the left, showing more of the ridge seen in the lower left of the 9/15 photo. Other than that, no significant difference there.

Only one I noticed is in the last pair, on the right picture there is a white developed area in the middle right to left and about 1/3rd from the bottom, top to bottom. In the left picture, just a smudge at the same location.

35 posted on 09/15/2004 6:24:35 AM PDT by JasonC
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To: TigerLikesRooster

There is no visible change between the 9-15 and 9-26 images.

Dark areas are cloud shadows, and if you lighten the image using any photo editor program, it's clear that there are absolutely no differences in the terrain or town.

There is no proof here. Not saying that nothing strange happened, just that this images provide no proof of anything.


36 posted on 09/15/2004 6:27:31 AM PDT by American_Centurion (I am the martyrs' bane.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

should have been 28. If I could count, I'd be a enguinere.


37 posted on 09/15/2004 6:32:10 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (SEE! The shadows are proof this is a 'black' project!)
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To: JasonC

See post 28, I agree.


38 posted on 09/15/2004 6:32:55 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (SEE! The shadows are proof this is a 'black' project!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Since everyone seems to be guessing, my guess is that the North Koreans had a very large underground munitions dump in the area that went up. You know, given Stealth aircraft technology and the precision that is capable with GPS guided bombs, some dark and stormy night the US could have put a bunker buster right down the chimney of such a facility and any North Korean inquiry would have to label it a mysterious accident. Remember a few moths back there was a huge train explosion at a railway station in North Korea. It turned out that among the many dead was a group of eastern European rocket or nuclear scientists who were on the train on their way to some sort of employment or consultation meeting. Very odd - two unexplained huge explosions in under three months. Just food for thought.
39 posted on 09/15/2004 7:05:05 AM PDT by finnigan2
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To: Smokin' Joe

The only thing I am unsure about is whether that white area in the right side photo (bottom one) is a built up area, or just a sandy or salt-flat-ish dry creekbed. If the second of those, the difference between the two pictures may just be recent water flow related. A closer look at the white area alone might distinguish.


40 posted on 09/15/2004 7:05:31 AM PDT by JasonC
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