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Author Archives: Scott LaFoy
Northern Border Crossings
As a detail to add to the logistical maps we put up a little while ago, we put together all major border crossings from the PRC and Russia into the DPRK. When assessing the trafficability of the DPRK and how … Continue reading
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Tagged Border Crossing, Logistical Maps, Logistics, Networks, rail, Railroads, Railway, Roads, Shipping, transport
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Greater Tumen Region Rough Logistical Nets
This post is based on an informal talk I gave about a year or so ago for a professor at Georgetown, as well as some backseat research Yong and myself always are adding to. The notion of an economically and … Continue reading
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Tagged DPRK, Logistics, Maps, rail, Shipping, SLOCs, Tumen, Tumen Triangle
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June 29th Hwasong-6 Imagery
A few folks online kindly pointed out that I overlooked the fact that two missiles were launched, which does significantly affect my analysis and judgment relating to photomanipulation. Edits have been added in italics, the original text has been left … Continue reading
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Tagged Ballistic Missile, Hwasong, Hwasong-6, Missile, Missile and Rocket Timeline, Missile Test, missiles, Rodong, Rodong-1, Scud, Scud-C, Shahab, Shahab-3, Shaheen, Shaheen-2
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New Anti-Ship Missile Option for DPRK Frigates
This article was originally posted at NK News. Most of this is an update to our earlier examination of the new helicopter frigates’ capabilities. With the possible addition of a Kh-35 anti-ship missile to the arsenal, we felt a map update was … Continue reading
Diligence in Imagery
So there is a lot of buzz about the DPRK possibly adding the Kh-35 cruise missile to its naval arsenal over the past couple weeks. The full ramifications of this new acquisition aside, the analysis that has so far come … Continue reading
Brief Review of The North Korean People’s Army: Origins and Current Tactics by James Minnich
Recently I’ve been working on a major project which hasn’t been made public yet, and as I’ve built up my research materials I keep coming back to a book that I’d highly recommend to anybody interested in the Korean People’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Cadres, Doctrine, Guerilla, history, KPA, Partisans, PLA, Strategy
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Corrections for “Looming Maritime Conflict in Korea Bay”
It looks like we overlooked some critical information when writing the article about potential DPRK-PRC conflict in Korea Bay. An associate of ours over at our partner research blog Sino-NK pointed out that HBOil had not, in fact, acquired the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bohai, Corrections, DPRK, Drilling, Energy Security, Korea Bay, Offshore Drilling, Oil, Petroleum, PRC, Xiyang, Yellow Sea
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DPRK’s New Frigates: What are they good for?
A slight update has been posted here. It does not replace this original post and only adds on an additional anti-ship missile option. Just a short update this week. Recently Joe Bermudez wrote in an article for 38 North about … Continue reading
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Tagged ASW, DPRK, Frigate, KPA Journal, KPANF, Naval Power, Navy, North Korea, Submarine
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Looming Maritime Conflict in Korea Bay
Important corrections have been posted here, new information was brought to our attention shortly after this article was posted, and the update, not this original article, should be read for data and conclusions. As DPRK-Mongolian oil ties develop, the potential … Continue reading
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Tagged Bohai, China, DPRK, HBOIl, Korea Bay, Lips and Teeth, maritime, Maritime Claims, Oil, Petroleum, PRC, Rig, Vietnam, Yellow Sea
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A Crude Relationship
Mongolia and the DPRK are continuing to develop their economic relationship in a very crude way. Namely, in the trade of oil and refined petroleum products. In a previous post, we took a brief look at the petroleum-based power plant … Continue reading
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