North Korea building hovercraft base near maritime border

摘要

North Korea is building a hovercraft base just north of the contested Northern Limit Line (NLL), according to South Korean and US intelligence and satellite imagery. The base is 1.5 km south of the town of Sasulp'o in South Hwang-hae Province, which hosts forward elements of the Korean People's Navy (KPN) West Sea Fleet sniper brigade. It is also on the Namdae-chun (Namdae stream), which flows into the West Sea (Yellow Sea) a short distance from the northernmost South Korean islands of Baeng- nyeong and Daecheong - where South Korean corvette Chon An (PCC-772) was sunk in March 2010. A 2 February 2011 DigitalGlobe satellite image shows a complex of about 800 m by 400 m under construction.