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A North Korean missile reportedly crashed into one of its own cities after it failed just minutes following its launch.
US officials said the Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) was initially thought to have disintegrated mid-flight after it was fired on 28 April last year.
However, new data suggests it landed in the city of Tokchon, around 90 miles north of the secretive communist country’s capital, Pyongyang. Tokchon has a population of around 200,000.
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North Korea Accidentally Hit One of its Own Cities With a Missile, Says Report
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday January 08 2018, @05:09AM (3 children)
All the images were of the crash site, immediately after the launch date.
Nothing talked about damage at the launch site.
And google earth historical imagery shows no buildings on that indicated plot, other than tube and plastic seasonal green houses, the kind that are put up each winter and taken down each spring. The whole of which would fit in the back of a small truck.
As for a rip in the larger plastic sheeting green house, that didn't look all that significant to me either. Wind? IDK.
You could look into sets pf images taken days appart of any moderate sized city and find as much change.
Taken all together, there is just not enough in these pictures to say a rocket crashed there, unless you already KNEW it did from other sources.
Why did they have pictures of THIS same area days apart?
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 08 2018, @07:00AM (2 children)
Probably because someone was looking for this very thing (the 1996 Chinese accident is not ancient history) and willing to pay Google for it. Could be a national spy agency, could be a media business looking for a scoop, or merely someone with some spare cash.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @03:18PM (1 child)
You do know that Google doesn't own the satellites right? They just take the pictures from NASA (no copyright for government works) and use them.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 08 2018, @06:41PM
And? Yes, I do realize Google doesn't own satellites. There are multiple parties that could have gotten an explicit before and after scan of the region around the North Korean launch site. Or maybe Landsat 8 just scans that much.