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Significant Developments at North Korea’s Sohae Test Facility By 38 North 29 January 2014 A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Nick Hansen. Summary Recent commercial satellite imagery indicates that North Korea may be preparing the Sohae Satellite Launching Station (“Tongchang-ri”) for a more robust rocket test program in the future involving larger space launch vehicles and road-mobile ballistic missiles able to attack targets in Northeast Asia and the United States. The Sohae gantry tower has been undergoing significant modifications to enable it to launch a large rocket up to 25 percent longer than the Unha-3 space launch vehicle tested...

North Korea has completed work on a new west coast site capable of launching improved intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to senior South Korean officials quoted by Yonhap news agency. The Dongchang-ri base has been under construction for several years despite long-running international efforts to shut down the communist state's missile and nuclear programmes. "The construction is as good as finished," one South Korean official told Yonhap on condition of anonymity. "The necessary facilities are all there." Another official said the North has been testing missile parts such as boosters at the site about 200 km (125 miles) northwest of Pyongyang....

N.Korean Launch Pad 'Ready for Missile Test' A satellite image taken on June 3 shows part of what analysts says is a new long-range missile base in North Korea. North Korea has finished preparatory work at a missile launch pad in Tongchangri, North Pyongan Province, where a long-range missile has been transported, a South Korean government source said Monday. "But the launch is not imminent because no radar has been set up and no missile has been installed at the launch pad," the source added. But the launch structure connecting electric power and fuel to the missile and allowing personnel...

Dongchang-ri Missile Launch Site Taken by Digital Globe and made public on Sept. 11, 2008. Inset (top left) : the location of Dongchang-ri test site marked with a red dot. Yellowish colored region on the top left corner is China. Inset (bottom left): the first launch pad - launch tower(10-story high) on the left side. pad on the right. The entire(big) photoBottom right marked with orange box caption: the second launch pad Top center: missile assembly facilities Top right: control tower

NK Moves ICBM to Missile Base on West Coast JUNE 01, 2009 08:03 North Korea has reportedly moved a long-range missile that it says it will test-launch soon following its second nuclear test to a new place. The intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of more than 5,000 kilometers was moved from a military research center in Sanumdong near Pyongyang and is known to be headed for a base in Musudan-ri, North Hamkyong Province. South Korean and U.S. intelligence officials say the missile is highly likely to be transported to a newly built long-range missile base in Tongchang-ri, North Pyongan...