US think tank spots another secret missile base in North Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects a factory in Pyongyang on May 7 2025 in this photo released by the official North Korean Central News Agency the following day Yonhap — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in leather jacket inspects a factory in Pyongyang on May 7, 2025, in this photo released by the official [North] Korean Central News Agency the following day. Yonhap

SEOUL, August 21 (AJP) - Another North Korean missile base has been spotted near Chinese border, U.S.-based think tank reveals.

According to a report released on the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)'s Beyond Parallel website, the "undisclosed" missile base, believed to produce intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, is located in Sinpung, North Pyongan Province near the border with China.

"The base is one of North Korea's approximately 15-20 ballistic missile bases, maintenance, support, missile storage, and warhead storage facilities which North Korea has never declared," it explained, based on the analysis of satellite imagery.

The base "houses a brigade-sized unit" equipped with about a dozen "intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), or an as yet unknown ICBM, and their transporter erector-launchers (TEL) or mobile-erector-launchers (MEL)," the report also wrote, warning that they "pose a potential nuclear threat to East Asia and the continental United States."

Cheon Soram cheons@ajunews.com