Nordkorea verkleidet geheime Raketenbasis als Golfplatz

***The Telegraph reports:***

[North Korea](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/north-korea/) is hiding a new launch site for intercontinental ballistic missiles in plain sight, disguising the base as a golf course on the outskirts of Pyongyang.

The site was until last year the location of Kim Jong-un’s Winter Palace, also known as the Ryokpo residence, in a heavily wooded valley about 20 miles south-east of the capital. 

However, the palace complex was recently demolished and replaced with a series of new structures, roads and what appear to be golf greens.

A closer examination of the facilities using near-infrared images over the course of the construction showed that the greens were reinforced with concrete bases in June, with a thin layer of soil added in August. By November, analysts determined that the grass had taken hold and the site resembled a golf course.

But analysts from the Middlesbury Institute’s James Martin Centre for Nonproliferation Studies have said that flat areas with concrete bases are ideal launch pads for [long-range ballistic missiles](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/01/07/north-korea-tests-new-hypersonic-missile-carbon-fiber/) and that some of the other buildings at the site are not typically found at a golf course.

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