Posted on 01/22/2010 1:35:44 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Beneath a lavish palace used by the North Korean supreme leader, the interior of Mount Baekdusan has been excavated and can store helicopters and fighter jets that can take off from a nearby airfield, according to the military analysis experts of the Kanwa Information Centre's Hong Kong bureau.
"This whole region is historically significant to the entire regime because this is where Kim Il-Song, Kim's father, staged his guerrilla campaign against the Japanese during the occupation in the early decades of the last century," said Andrei Chang, author of the report.
"We believe this would be the last place that the present regime would retreat to and try to conduct a campaign such as we are presently seeing in Afghanistan," he said.
And if the worst came to the worst, he added, the Chinese border is a short helicopter flight away and Beijing is expected to offer Kim and his closest aides sanctuary.
Construction of the facility has taken many years, Mr Chang said, but underlines the fears within the regime. The major concern is a joint military invasion by forces from the United States and South Korea, although Mr Chang also believes that Kim will have not entirely discounted a coup by his own military, the emergence of a political rival or even - unlikely as it may seem among a cowed population - a popular uprising.
Kanwa identified the Mount Baekdusan "guest house" as the location of the military headquarters after examining 13 similar palaces across the impoverished country. Using satellite imagery and testimony obtained from high-ranking defectors - including Kim's own Japanese sushi chef, Kenji Fujimoto - the analysts say its inaccessibilty, atop a 2,700-meter high peak, make it the ideal redoubt.
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That would only scratch the surface. You would need a very strong nuclear blast knock it out of commission
Bump.
:)
Ping
Welcome to my secret lair Mr. Powers.
Inset 2: Samjiyon airfield(which probably have Tu-204-300 Russian plane ready for Chia Head)
Who knows who might want to hide there soon?
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
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