Multiple Wildfires rage across N.Korea
Pastor Dale Morgan
Multiple Wildfires rage across N.Korea*
by Staff Writers
Seoul (AFP) Oct 22, 2009
Multiple Wildfires were raging in the northeast of North Korea recently,
with a plume of smoke extending far out over the ocean, according to
satellite photos seen Thursday.
Official media in the communist state has made no mention of the
apparently massive wildfires.
The true-colour image captured by the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's Aqua satellite on October 15 showed the northeast skies
covered by great plumes of smoke extending over the Sea of Japan (East Sea).
"The smoke plumes blow uniformly eastward, some of the individual plumes
coalescing into a single large plume over the sea," the caption read.
"Red outlines indicate hotspots associated with active fires, although
not all the fires have visible hotspots," it said.
South Korean intelligence officials were unsure about the nature of the
fires.
"We are still trying to analyse it," an official told Yonhap news
agency. "One possibility is forest fires. But we are not certain about
what it is, what caused it and what it looks like at the moment."