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Posted on 04/26/2008 2:35:20 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Kim Jong-il builds ‘Thunderbirds’ runway for war in North Korea An airbase inside a mountain is the latest sign that North Korea, whose links to Syria’s nuclear programme came to light last week, is cranking up its military machine Michael Sheridan, Far East Correspondent, and Uzi Mahnaimiin in Tel Aviv
North Korean military engineers are completing an underground runway beneath a mountain that can protect fighter aircraft from attack until they take off at high speed through the mouth of a tunnel.
The 6,000ft runway is a few minutes’ flying time from the tense front line where the Korean People’s Army faces soldiers from the United States and South Korea.
The project was identified by an air force defector from North Korea and captured on a satellite image by Google Earth, according to reports in the South Korean press last week.
It is one of three underground fighter bases among an elaborate subterranean military infrastructure built to withstand a “shock and awe” assault in the first moments of a war, the defector said.
The runway, reminiscent of the Thunderbirds television series, highlights the strange and secretive nature of the regime that provided the expertise for a partially built nuclear reactor in Syria, film of which was released by the CIA last week.
The reactor was destroyed by Israeli aircraft last September in an operation that may have killed or injured North Koreans at the site in the remote deserts of eastern Syria.
The airstrike appears to have convinced North Korea to harden its own defences and to spend more on its military, even as it struggles to cope with a new food shortage that could see millions of its citizens go hungry. In recent days North Korea has ordered its people to be vigilant against “warmongers”.
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If we know where the mouth of the tunnel is, its game over quickly and we’ve sealed off the rest of its air capability
If an aircraft can fly out, a cruise missile can fly in.
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Yep. All they’ve done is create tomb for their fighters.
OMG this too funny LOL!
They can take off, but can they return and land back at the base?
Idiots!! One bunker buster bomb at the opening will close the tunnel and no flights will be coming out. LOL These guys should run for Congress here in America.
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At least a crosswind won’t be a problem.
Shoot, we forgot to think about that one....
What sort of fighters do they have to fly out of this ridiculous Bat Cave? Probably some Chinese junk patterned on Russian junk.
This is certainly not a revelation. I have heard rumors of such North Korean faclities since the early 90s.
Only if they leave the door open...
Wrong again, runt!
Yet visitors to NK who sneek a peek outside the painted and covered windows of the tour buses say the military equipment they see is stuck together with duct tape and bailing wire.
airbase inside a mountain... COOL !
This is old news. We have had this capability for a few years now...
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