This Is Where Kim Jong Un Tests His Nuclear Bombs
Analysts engage in a high-stakes guessing game to determine what moves the rogue regime will make next
Visitors look through binoculars towards North Korea at an observatory near the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea.
Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/BloombergWhen North Korea unleashed an earth-shaking nuclear bomb of as much as 250 kilotons on Sept. 3, one man wasn’t fazed.
Almost 6,000 miles (9,650 kilometers) from Pyongyang, in Colorado, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. has for years watched the isolated regime’s nuclear testing facility, peering at blobs and shadows on high-resolution satellite images.