Underground North Korea artillery base collapsed and partially fell into the sea. Located at 41.89599°, 129.94985° in N. Hamgyong Province

Underground #NorthKorea #artillery base collapsed and partially fell into the sea. Located at 41.89599°, 129.94985° in N. Hamgyong Province. #AccessDPRK #military pic.twitter.com/Xgipz9NH48

— Jacob Bogle (@JacobBogle) January 13, 2018

Russia MOD - S-400 Triumph ADMS Deployed At North Korea Border

Japan Wants Missiles With Range To Strike North Korea

North Korea releases first pictures of their Huasong-15 ICBM

RoKAF F-16 dropped Spice 2000 PGM in East Sea shortly after North Korea launched Hwasong-15 ICBM

South Korea’s military was well prepared for North Korea’s launch of Hwasong-15 ICBM on Nov. 29. Six minutes after the missile lifted off, the South launched a 20-minute live-fire drill starting from 0323hrs.

Incredible footage of the North Korean soldier making his escape through the DMZ

Incredible footage of the North Korean soldier making his escape through the DMZ, first in a jeep and then on foot. Can clearly see North Koreans running to shoot their "comrade"

A Communist Comrade can be shot once he is useless and refuses to follow Lenin, Marx and Mao

Sea View Of 3 U.S. Carrier Strike Group Near North Korea

Kim Jong Un factory visit implies North Korea production of China origin Sinotruk HOWO truck

#KimJongUn factory visit implies #NorthKorea production of #China origin Sinotruk HOWO truck - cab and chassis also used for KPA 300mm MRL pic.twitter.com/7EHALJ19h4

— Joseph Dempsey (@JosephHDempsey) November 4, 2017

Last week on North Korean TV news

Last week North Korean TV news broadcast pictures of @realDonaldTrump w/ a Hitler mustache on. You can see a still of it here: pic.twitter.com/qSjVzCu3CD

— Chad O'Carroll (@chadocl) October 1, 2017

Commercial satellite imagery from September shows North Korea continues to work on second test stand barge for SLBM program at Nampo Naval Shipyard

Commercial satellite imagery from September shows #NorthKorea continues to work on second test stand barge for SLBM program at Nampo Naval Shipyardhttps://t.co/CyfmEmq6x1

— 38 North (@38NorthNK) September 28, 2017

KCTV - Mars 12 2nd ICBM That Flew Over Japan

N. Korea's latest missile launch, S. Korea's military says it fired a missile of its own into the East Sea

After N. Korea's latest missile launch, S. Korea's military says it fired a missile of its own into the East Sea. https://t.co/yne2yTKMEW pic.twitter.com/bu5vbegvJu

— ABC News (@ABC) September 15, 2017

North Korean leader inspects new H-bomb

The black funnel with wire is from where to fill hydrogen.

 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected a new, “super explosive” hydrogen bomb meant to be loaded into an intercontinental ballistic missile, Pyongyang’s state media said Sunday, a claim to technological mastery that some outside experts will doubt but that raises the possibility of an imminent nuclear bomb test.

Photos released by North Korea showed Kim talking with his lieutenants as he observed a silver, peanut-shaped device that was apparently the purported thermonuclear weapon destined for an ICBM.

Aside from the factuality of the North’s claim, the language in its statement seems a strong signal that Pyongyang will soon conduct another nuclear weapon test, which is crucial if North Korean scientists are to fulfill the national goal of an arsenal of viable nuclear ICBMs that can reach the U.S. mainland. There’s speculation that such a test could come on or around the Sept. 9 anniversary of North Korea’s national founding, something it did last year.

As part of the North’s weapons work, Kim was said by his propaganda mavens to have made a visit to the Nuclear Weapons Institute and inspected a “homemade” H-bomb with “super explosive power” that “is adjustable from tens kiloton to hundreds (of) kiloton,” the state run Korean Central News Agency said.

North Korea in July conducted its first ever ICBM tests, part of a stunning jump in progress for the country’s nuclear and missile program since Kim rose to power following his father’s death in late 2011. The North followed its two tests of ICBMs, which, when perfected, could target large parts of the United States, by threatening to launch a salvo of its Hwasong-12 intermediate range missiles toward the U.S. Pacific island territory of Guam in August.

It flew a Hwasong-12 over northern Japan last week, the first such overflight by a missile capable of carrying nukes, in a launch Kim described as a “meaningful prelude” to containing Guam, the home of major U.S. military facilities, and more ballistic missile tests targeting the Pacific.

To back up its bombast, North Korea needs to conduct nuclear tests. The first of its two such tests last year involved what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb; the second it said was its most powerful detonation ever. Experts and outside governments are skeptical of the hydrogen claim, but it is almost impossible to independently confirm North Korean statements about its highly secret weapons program.


It is clear, however, that each new missile and nuclear test gives the North invaluable information that allows big jumps in capability. A key question is how far North Korea has gotten in efforts to consistently shrink down nuclear warheads so they can fit on long-range missiles.

“Though we cannot verify the claim, (North Korea) wants us to believe that it can launch a thermonuclear strike now, if it is attacked. Importantly, (North Korea) will also want to test this warhead, probably at a larger yield, to demonstrate this capability,” said Adam Mount, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

North Korea’s claim that “this warhead is variable-yield and capable of specialized weapons effects implies a complex nuclear strategy. It shows (North Korea) is not only threatening assured destruction of the U.S. and allied cities in the event it is attacked, but also that (North Korea) is considering limited coercive nuclear strikes, or is seeking credible response options for U.S. ones.”

North Korea is thought to have a growing arsenal of nuclear bombs and has spent decades trying to perfect a multistage, long-range missile to eventually carry smaller versions of those bombs.

South Korea’s main spy agency has previously asserted that it does not think Pyongyang currently has the ability to develop miniaturized nuclear weapons that can be mounted on long-range ballistic missiles. Some experts, however, think the North may have mastered this technology.

In Washington, there was no immediate reaction from the White House or the State Department.

The North said in its statement Sunday that its H-bomb “is a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack according to strategic goals.”

Kim, according to the statement, claimed that “all components of the H-bomb were homemade ... thus enabling the country to produce powerful nuclear weapons as many as it wants.”

In what could be read as a veiled warning of more nuclear tests, Kim underlined the need for scientists to “dynamically conduct the campaign for successfully concluding the final-stage research and development for perfecting the state nuclear force” and “set forth tasks to be fulfilled in the research into nukes.”

KCTV - North Korea Mars 12 ICBM That Flew Over Japan On 29 Aug 2017

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Kim Jong PUnG observing the launch of the HS-12 which overflew Japan

Kim Jong Un is pictured here observing the launch of the HS-12 which overflew #Japan yesterday pic.twitter.com/CsNSQTZh4a

— Strategic Sentinel (@StratSentinel) August 29, 2017

North Korea Kim Jong Un tasks Chemical Material Institute of the Academy of Defense Science during inspection

#NorthKorea Kim Jong Un tasks Chemical Material Institute of the Academy of Defense Science during inspection pic.twitter.com/w39EsRzrzH

— Joseph Dempsey (@JosephHDempsey) August 23, 2017

Kim at KPA base

Here you go @CurtisMelvin. The KPA base. pic.twitter.com/6Tr6P0Qqj7

— Martyn Williams (@martyn_williams) August 15, 2017

IISS - North Korea’s ICBMs use RD-250 engines produced by Ukraine’s KB Yuzhnoye

In his report for International Institute for Strategic Studies, Michael Elleman concludes that North Korea probably acquired RD-250 engines from Ukraine’s KB Yuzhnoye to power its Hwasong-12, -14 ballistic missiles.

Kim Jong Un reportedly receives North Korea Strategic Forces briefing on plan to launch of 4 Hwasong-12 IRBMs at waters off Guam

#KimJongUn reportedly receives #NorthKorea Strategic Forces briefing on plan to launch of 4 Hwasong-12 IRBMs at waters off #Guam pic.twitter.com/p1BkjF2nu1

— Joseph Dempsey (@JosephHDempsey) August 14, 2017

North Korean Propaganda to Keep Kim family in power for 70 years