North Korea has secret military base that may pose threat to east Asia and US, new report says

"The facility in North Pyongan province likely houses six to nine nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and their launchers, the study said. It said the weapons pose a potential nuclear threat to east Asia and the continental United States. North Korea has ramped up its nuclear weapons programme since a failed summit with the United States in 2019, and leader Kim Jong-un recently called for the rapid expansion of the diplomatically isolated nation's nuclear capability."

"The undeclared Sinpung-dong missile operating base lies about 27km (17 miles) from the Chinese frontier, the Washington-based thinktank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said in a report published on Wednesday. The report which CSIS called the first in-depth, open-source confirmation of Sinpung-dong said the base is one of about 15-20 ballistic missile bases, maintenance, support, missile storage, and warhead storage facilities which North Korea has never declared."

A secret Sinpung-dong missile operating base lies about 27km from the Chinese frontier in North Pyongan province. The facility likely houses six to nine nuclear-capable ICBMs and their launchers, posing a potential nuclear threat to East Asia and the continental United States. North Korea maintains roughly 15-20 undeclared ballistic missile, maintenance, support, missile storage, and warhead storage facilities. Launchers and missiles from the base could relocate during crises, link with special units, and conduct harder-to-detect launches from other parts of the country. Nuclear capability expansion accelerated after the 2019 summit collapse.

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