THE BRAZEN NORTH KOREAN CONTINUES ITS MISSILE EXPANSION FOR THE POSSIBLE COMMUNIST FIRST STRIKE WITH A BRNAD NEW LAUNCH PAD FOR ITS UNHA-3–A THREE STAGE VEHICLE THAT CAN ORBIT A SATTELITE AND TRAVEL 10,000KM–A DISTANCE THAT CAN REACH THE WESTERN US MAINLAND

North Korea has almost completed extension work at a long-range missile launching pad near its border with China, according to military sources Wednesday.
South Korean military authorities are focusing on the possibility that the North could launch a long-range missile or rocket around Oct. 10 when it will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the foundation of its ruling Workers' Party.
Pyongyang began to build the extension of the 50-meter-tall gantry in 2013 and has made it higher by 17 meters, sources said apparently on the basis of satellite imagery.
The new 67-meter-tall gantry has been spotted at the Dongchang-ri site, North Pyeongan Province, which the repressive state calls the Sohae Satellite Launching Station. Sohae means West Sea in Korean.
"We believe that North Korea could use the extended gantry to fire a long-range rocket bigger than the Unha-3," a source said, asking not to be named. "We assess that a firing could occur around anniversary day."
The Unha-3, which allegedly put a satellite into orbit in December 2012, is a three-stage vehicle some 30 meters long, believed to be able to travel more than 10,000 kilometers, a distance far enough to hit the Western United States.

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