Korea Finder 16-14
Welcome to Korea Finder. The way this contest works is that each week a new image is posted and the first reader to accurately describe or locate the image gets a point. At the end of the year the reader with the highest amount of points will win a Korea related book of their choice.
Who knows where this Google Earth image is located and its significance?
2016 Korea Finder Leaders Board
- Comfortable Chairs – 6
- Smokes – 2, Dd – 2
- MTB Rider – 1, JoeC – 1, Setnaffa – 1
It is the Tonghae missile test site facility. The DPRk has conducted tests there either with the Musudan missile or a new ICBM engine.
Nah I’m calling cheese on that. There really needs to be a requirement for people to have to qualify their answers with reference links to what exactly they’re saying it is.
The specific requirement is: “Who knows where this Google Earth image is located and its significance?”
“It is the Tonghae missile test site facility.” isn’t specific enough to satisfy the first part of the requirement, especially with outdated and/or misleading info like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonghae_Satellite_Launching_Ground
All pointers to “Tonghae missile site” or similar seem to link to a defunct site in North Hamgyeong province far from where this particular finder actually is.
In any case the name isn’t important.
The location in the photo is a launch test site near Hodo Village in the Geumya County of the North Korean province of South Hamgyeong. As seen here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.3187841,127.5433102,708m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Its significance is as stated by Dd where the recent Musudan missile test was ran ending in failure.
HA!
I knew Dd was off the mark and was still looking. Nice find, Smokes. I figured it was a test site and checked the Tonghae area, but the beaches in that area have no white caps – couldn’t be there.
Anyway, I’ve got a TOPIK test in 8 hours, so…. thanks for finding it so I can get some sleep! 😛
@Smokes, great find. You are correct that this is the Hodo peninsula outside of Wonsan where the recent Musudan missile test ended in failure. I like picturing Kim Jong-un standing on the hill in this picture looking at his missile blow up right in front of him.