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2004-04-23 China-Japan-Koreas

Satellite Photo of Nkor before/after RR boom

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Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-04-23 12:55|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 According to the comments on this NKZone post, the right hand image is of Baghdad on April 9 of last year. It came from this page.

NKZone says the BBC had that picture up, but it's not there now (an image much like the left-hand donga.com image is currently up on this BBC page.)

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-04-23 1:57:22 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-04-23 1:57:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Dang - thats weird. do you think this was an intentional coverup or just a mistake by the publisher?

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-04-23 2:05:23 PM|| 2004-04-23 2:05:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 the picture on left sure looks different...and you would think the plume would be larger with the reports coming out of the size of the blast....to bad it missed kimmy

Posted by Dan 2004-04-23 2:12:23 PM|| 2004-04-23 2:12:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 2 points. The right hand image looks to be a few seconds after a big explosion. If it was 18 hours in, I would expect the smoke to be a lot more diffuse. 2nd point, if it's supposed to be a satellite image, the angles all wrong, unless it's a *really* low orbit.

Iraq image seems about right.

Posted by Lux 2004-04-23 2:54:09 PM|| 2004-04-23 2:54:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Scratch that 2nd point, camera could be off-nadir.

Posted by Lux 2004-04-23 3:41:13 PM|| 2004-04-23 3:41:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Imagery intelligence was my military specialty. The second shot is not of anywhere near the same area as the first shot - none of the buildings can be made to match the first shot. It's also of such a scale that matching anything is next to impossible - like blowing up a 35mm slide to the size of a football field.

French SPOT satellite imagery is readily available for a price to anyone who wants to buy it. The Russians also offer their satellite imagery for sale. I'm surprised some enterprising newspaper hasn't bought the pics yet, unless the NKOR government is paying a very LARGE price to keep them from being disclosed.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-04-23 5:31:39 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-04-23 5:31:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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