SEOUL (Reuters): A new facility near Pyongyang International Airport is almost certainly linked to North Korea's expanding ballistic missile programme, according to a report from a Washington-based think-tank.
The Centre for Strategic and International Studies cited commercial satellite imagery it says shows that the facility and a nearby underground structure have the capacity to accommodate North Korea's largest intercontinental ballistic missiles that experts believe are able to strike anywhere in the United States.
Negotiations aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes have been at a standstill after working-level meetings with the United States collapsed last year. In recent months, North Korea has also warned it could rethink its self-imposed moratorium on nuclear weapons tests and ICBM launches.
"The facility has been constructed next to an underground facility whose likely size is also large enough to easily accommodate all known North Korean ballistic missiles and their associated launchers and support vehicles."
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