A Grand Tour of North Korea's Secretive Space Command Center

It's the home to North Korea's space program, and a cover for testing the technology that could one day send a nuclear-warhead-bearing missile hurtling towards the US mainland. Now thanks to some publicity photographs, modeling software, and the efforts of an enterprising video game developer, you can tour its command center without fear of arrest. The North Korea specialist website 38 North has released a 3-D model of the control room at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station, the building from which the North launches its satellites and test rocket engines. The model makes for a nifty virtual experience, showing viewers the heart of the facility in rich enough detail to spot the curvature of the rubber seals on the windows. You can see several of the renders in the gallery above.