South Korea's military says it's monitoring North Korean nuclear and missile facilities after the country's spy agency told lawmakers new activity was detected at a research center where the North presumably builds long-range missiles. By KimTonghyung.
This satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe captured on March 2, 2019, and shows the launch tower at the Sohae Satellite Launch Facility in Tongchang-ri, North Korea. North Korea is restoring facilities at the long-range rocket launch site, which it dismantled last year as part of disarmament steps, according to foreign experts and a South Korean lawmaker who was briefed by Seoul's spy service.
But a lawmaker who attended a closed-door intelligence briefing told The Associated Press that National Intelligence Service director Suh Hoon said his agency was spotting increased vehicle movement at the Pyongyang facility. Suh during Tuesday’s briefing said it was clear that vehicles were transporting supplies but avoided specific answers when lawmakers pressed him on what those would be for, the lawmaker said. The lawmaker requested anonymity because the information was sensitive.
It wasn’t immediately clear how the findings might affect the diplomacy. The U.S. and North Korea accused each other of causing the breakdown of the summit in Vietnam, but both sides left the door open for future negotiations. Following his last ICBM test in November 2017, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared his nuclear force as complete and initiated diplomacy with Washington and Seoul at the start of 2018. But experts say the North still needs to master a few remaining technologies, such as ensuring that the warhead survives the harsh conditions of atmospheric re-entry, to have functioning ICBMs.
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