Hmmmm.
It’s doubtful NK is a destination hub for many. Would you want to pilot a plane there nukes or no nukes?
I would assume so. I doubt many people are going there. Also they may get shot at if they fly over their airspace. So, just an educated guess, yes that is normal.
I say nobody wants to go there anyways, but it’s already been said. I’m sayin’ it again, anyhoo—Nobody wants to go there!
But would you want to fly a plane over NK?
Right now there is one plane flying from Vladivostok to Pyongyang. That must be the exception to the rule.
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“was wondering if flights are diverting around NK airspace.”
They are either diverting or have been knocked out by the nuke’s EMP.
The shortest path for those flights between China and South Korea would have been over NK.
China starts radiation monitoring after suspected North Korea blast
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-nuclear-china-radiation-idUSKCN11F07E?il=0
Pretty sure it looks like that all the time. Don’t think many airlines fly over NK.
Knowing nothing about it in particular, isn’t there a reasonable chance you get a SAM or two launched at you if you fly over their airspace? You know, a stratoaggression.
I wouldn’t fly over that place if I have a choice.
FlightAware and a couple of other sites have historical data.
Holy cow! Do not know what that means... ?
Any thoughts?
One last thought. Here’s a tourism slogan:
“North Korea: Come for the starvation; stay for the torture!”
Seriously, that is odd. Maybe they don’t even allow planes to land there?
You ponder; “Just asking, I have no idea, but was wondering if flights are diverting around NK airspace.”
North Korea is not part of the civilized world
Its just North Korea - Here it is from space at night...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lrRDVQiBhc
This picture is at least a decade old. Nothing new at all. They can’t sustain their power grid and hardly anyone has functioning electricity over night.
All you need to do is Google “North Korea at night from ISS”