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The AccessDPRK blog is dedicated to exposing North Korea via satellite imagery. Discussing domestic, economic and military locations and helping to uncover this hermit kingdom.

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Saturday, August 26, 2023

Building North Korea's Bomb

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If you've ever looked at a diagram of a nuclear bomb (whether of Little Boy or of a modern miniaturized warhead like the W-87), you migh...

Monday, July 24, 2023

Kim Jong Un's Underground Pyongyang

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Verifying the existence of underground facilities can be a difficult task, especially when their existence is a state secret. But rumors eve...

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Bye, Bye Airports

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Ever since Kim Jong Un came to power, North Korea's aviation infrastructure has undergone a series of changes, making it difficult to ke...

Friday, May 19, 2023

Tee-up, North Korea's Golf Courses

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Pyongyang Golf Club in 2015, prior to expansion program. ( CC BY-SA 2.0 , Uri Tours ) It is often erroneously reported that North Korea only...

Monday, April 24, 2023

Construction at Huichon

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Huichon is an industrial city in Chagang Province, North Korea that has been experiencing a construction boom over the last few years. This ...

Sunday, February 26, 2023

AccessDPRK Free Map Update 1.1

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Two years I ago I published the largest freely available map on North Korea ever created. After creating maps for a decade, I didn't wa...

Monday, February 20, 2023

North Korea's Expanding Coastline

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Seawall construction at the Honggongdo Tidelands Project. Image via KCNA , 2017. Land reclamation has history dating back centuries around t...

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