Punggye-ri nuclear test site

Our own images of this 5.1 km square from the European Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites: the newest clear picture, and the clearest one from each of the last 24 months. One pixel is 10 m, enough to see roads, fields, ponds and large buildings, not people.

3 Oct 20258 Oct 20261 km

Before: 3 Oct 2025Cloud in this square: 0%Scene S2B_52TEL_20251003_0_L2AOpen this day in Copernicus Browser ↗After: 8 Oct 2026Cloud in this square: 0%Scene S2B_52TEL_20261008_0_L2AOpen this day in Copernicus Browser ↗

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We pick each image by measuring cloud inside this square from the satellite’s own scene classification. Months with no clear image are left out. We do not mark or interpret anything in the pictures. The ring marks the point on our map.

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024-2026 · Copernicus Data Space · Sentinel-2 L2A COGs (AWS)