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According to the analyses and photos released by the independent website NK News along the 38th parallel, in the district of Ryokpho, something doesn't add up. Sudden chromatic changes have been recorded: where drones had photographed large green patches until recently, gray spots now stand out, signs of recent cementing. The paths between one hole and another have suddenly straightened and have been asphalted. Experts, including the team at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, say that secret golf course is a cover for a secret installation, specifically a new base for long-range ballistic missiles in Kim Jong Uns arsenal.
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North Korea, golf
The Open Source team at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute, NK News reports, said that last summer, concrete was poured in several places in that area to facilitate the launch of heavy missiles. Then the ground was covered with grass, round areas like golf greens. Then sand bunkers were added to make it look like a course. According to further analysis from above, a building has been built in an embankment capable of housing mobile launch pads for that type of missile. The paths are all widened, paved and straightened to allow the transport of missiles.
This is not the first installation of bases of this kind in the country. Certainly the base disguised as a golf course has not yet been tested. Kim Jong-un's sister, Kim Yo-jong, has in any case announced in time that Pyongyang could soon "intensify" nuclear weapons tests.
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The relationship between North Korea and golf is a very strange one. Apart from those three holes in the Ryokpho district, there is only one 18-hole course in the country. The Pyongyang Golf Course is located thirty kilometers south of the capital.
According to the local press, it is a structure "designed for tourists" and very high-level government officials. While waiting for the capital to transform into a golf destination, only the staff of the Ryomyong Golf Travel Company set foot on that course. But there is more: the usual well-informed people have collected particular testimonies about that course. A resident of the Kangso district reported armed sentries controlling the entrances and perimeter to discourage curious and nosy people. Not only that: the basin that separates the golf course from the surrounding area, Lake Taesong, is effectively sealed off. The danger of intrusion could come from the water. So here are metal fences on the surface and underwater nets.
