Songsu-do Naval Base
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Songsu-do Naval Base is a large, multi-function Menghean military facility located on Songsu Island (Pine Tree Island) in Gyŏngsan municipality, southwestern Menghe. It contains the headquarters of the Menghean Navy, the country's largest shipyard, a military airfield, a cadet training school, and supply docks for Menghean warships, as well as a wide array of residential and recreational facilities for military personnel, dockyard workers, and their families.
History
Gyŏngsan Songsu-do shipyard
Songsu-do airbase
Residential facilities
Transportation
Security
All legal points of entry to the Songsu-do Naval Base are guarded by security kiosks, where base staff check the identity documents of all individuals who enter and leave the base. This information is entered into an on-site database containing a precise list of all individuals on the base grounds at any given time. Active Navy personnel, civilians employed in base transportation, and civilians who have successfully applied for residence or employment on the base are given a special ID card stating their status, for easy entry and exit; all other visitors require proof of invitation, and must pass through additional security screening. Guard outposts are stationed around the island to guard against infiltration by sea.
In an effort to further safeguard the facility against sabotage and spying, the base authorities set up a base-wide network of surveillance cameras which use facial recognition and artificial intelligence to record the precise movement of each person on the base grounds. Faces which do not match base personnel and registered visitors trigger an alert to on-base security personnel. A trial system restricted to the shipyard area began operation in 2018, and the full base-wide system went online in 2019.