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北韓秘密飛彈基地13處曝光 美智庫爆衛星照

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2018年11月14日 下午6:53

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北韓棄核武飛彈長久以來遭到國際質疑，美國智庫最新提出衛星照當證據，顯示北韓偷偷建造13處秘密飛彈基地，有的藏在山谷中，離兩韓交界最近的一處只有80公里，就算是短程飛彈，也能對首爾上百萬條人命造成威脅，北韓核武不僅沒停止、進度還超前，飛彈計畫轉往地下，紐約時報批評這真是一場大騙局，無疑也顯示美國總統川普遭北韓玩弄，讓接下來與金正恩的第二次元首會面，充滿變數。

說要放棄核武和飛彈的金正恩，誠意一直遭外界懷疑，現在美國提出證據指控，北韓一直以來是在誆騙國際社會。

前美國國家安全議會官員 Jamie Metzl：「北韓絕對是在哄騙總統川普，從一開始就很明確，北韓絕對不可能放棄核武以及飛彈計畫，雖然他們樂意暫停，那是因為發射飛彈已發展到某個階段，核武威脅能力也受到認同。」

美國智庫「戰略暨國際研究中心」（CSIS），揭露一系列最新衛星照顯示，北韓不但沒有停止飛彈計畫，而且進度超前，數十個秘密基地繼續運作，美國紐約時報批評，北韓根本是在進行大規模騙局。

戰略暨國際研究中心研究員 Thomas Karako：「北韓在背地裡繼續從事飛彈活動，某種程度方式運作，包括在新加坡(韓朝元首)峰會期間以及之後。」

不爭的事實就擺在眼前，衛星照拍下秘密飛彈基地分布在13個地點，包括能發射飛毛腿、火星12型以及蘆洞飛彈的基地各三個，其他4個甚至疑似能進行洲際飛彈攻擊，南韓國防部稱已經掌握情資，正在密切監視中。

南韓參謀本部官員：「合同參謀本部以及地方，在韓美軍人的協助下密切監視。」

為了躲過監控，北韓將飛彈基地藏在狹窄山谷間的地下坑道，這樣一來隱密性高，除了多個入口幾乎看不出有何特別之處，靠卡車載運飛彈進出，機動性強，隨時能對敵人攻其不備。

戰略暨國際研究中心研究員 Thomas Karako：「那些秘密地道可能是被偽裝，用來保護載運飛彈或攜帶型飛彈的車，從(地道)入口送出來後，直接載運到某個地點，進行發射，一切能在最短時間內完成。」

其中一處更直接威脅到南韓前線，離兩韓邊界停戰區約80公里(50英里)，與首爾相差128公里(80英里)，就算是發射短程飛彈，也會直接危害南韓首都百萬條人命。

戰略暨國際研究中心研究員 Thomas Karako：「一顆短程彈道飛彈，就能打到美國基地及南韓基地、首爾和其他地方。」

這下常常自誇在北韓廢核取得進展的美國總統川普，窘大了。

美國總統 川普：「飛彈(試射)已經停止，火箭(計畫)也停止。」

美國前國防部長及多名參議員，批評美國三軍統帥，被年輕獨裁者狠耍了一番。

美國前國防部長 海格(Chuck Hagel)：「(北韓)沒有發出任何聲明，同意任何事情，或簽署框架協議，一切都是川普在說的。」

然而在風頭浪尖上，正在新加坡參加東協峰會的南韓總統文在寅，還在替北韓謀出路，計畫與俄羅斯總統普欽及中國最高領導人習近平會面，討論減緩對北韓制裁，青瓦臺同時緩頰，稱北韓沒公開秘密基地不代表欺騙，引發在野輿論撻伐。

南韓在野黨議員：「(青瓦臺發言人)他是金正恩委員長的發言人嗎？還是文在寅總統替金正恩發言，為什麼有這樣的言論，我不能理解。」

這讓接下來，金正恩與川普第二次的元首會面增加難度，日本方面更表示，如果北韓廢核遲遲沒有進展，不排除明年春天，再展開日美聯合共同訓練。

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聯合國報告證實　北韓「無核化」仍是空談
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2018/08/06 22:39

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聯合國上週五，公佈了一份北韓研究報告。報告指出，北韓依然在研發核武和飛彈。加上美國兩個智庫，在上個月底，陸續公佈衛星照片，懷疑北韓偷偷生產能直接攻打美國本土的火星15型飛彈。

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73年前的今天，日本廣島成了第一個被原子彈攻擊的地方。

直到現在，廣島人每到這一天還是會敲鐘祈求和平。只是聯合國的最新報告卻證實，北韓恐怕依舊威脅著國際穩定。

記者：「北韓除了繼續開發核武與飛彈外，還把武器賣給葉門叛軍，這都違反聯合國決議。」

這是一份由聯合國專家小組撰寫，長達62頁的報告書。北韓繼續研發核武和飛彈，這和美國華盛頓郵報的報導，不謀而合。

華盛頓郵報在上週，引述美國智庫消息，表示北韓在平壤近郊的三陰洞，疑似正在生產1到2枚彈道飛彈，而且還是能直打美國本土的火星15型。

另一份智庫報告也指出，平壤郊外的「降仙」，這個由長達1公里外牆圍起的設施，即使在冬天也沒有積雪，疑似設施內發出高溫，因此懷疑這裡是北韓用來濃縮鈾的工廠。

換句話說，北韓即使在國際媒體面前，炸了核實驗設施，卻不代表他們沒有能力繼續生產核武與飛彈。

記者引述龐佩歐談話：「金正恩承諾要非核化，但這和他們現在的行為不相符。要達到我們期望的終極目標，還有很長一段路要走。」

駐韓美軍司令官布魯克林：「他們的製造能力，還是沒受影響，北韓是個表裡不一的國家。」

北韓的兩面手法，南韓人這麼看。

前南韓統一部長官丁世鉉：「對美國會採取『要讓我們即刻停止(開發核武)』，『你們也得把終戰宣言』和『國交正常化的日程訂出來』的態度，我認為(核武)就是張『交涉牌』。」

儘管如此，美國總統川普，還是對自己完全掌控金正恩，顯得信心滿滿。

美國總統川普：「沒有人說這很容易，但我們不會就此停下。」

美國記者：「北韓現在同意要完成非核化。」

美國總統川普：「我永遠不會讓你們失望。」

北韓非核化，或許只是空談。廣島人要的和平，只能繼續等待。

廣島民眾：「和平能永遠繼續下去就好了。」

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13 exposures of North Korea’s secret missile bases
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North Korea’s abandonment of nuclear weapons has long been questioned internationally. The US think tank recently proposed satellite photos as evidence, showing that North Korea secretly built 13 secret missile bases, some hidden in the valley, and only 80 kilometers from the nearest junction of the two Koreas. It is a short-range missile that can also pose a threat to millions of lives in Seoul. North Korea’s nuclear weapons have not stopped, progress has advanced, and the missile program has turned underground. The New York Times has criticized this as a big scam and undoubtedly shows that US President Trump has been North Korea played with it, so that the next meeting with Kim Jong-un’s second head of state was full of variables.


Kim Jong-un, who said that he wants to abandon nuclear weapons and missiles, has always been suspected by the outside world. Now the United States has filed evidence that North Korea has been cheating the international community.


Former US National Security Council official Jamie Metzl: "North Korea is definitely kidding President Trump. From the very beginning, it is clear that North Korea is absolutely impossible to give up nuclear weapons and missile programs. Although they are willing to suspend, it is because the missiles have been developed. At some stage, the nuclear threat capability is also recognized."


The US think tank "Case and International Research Center" (CSIS) revealed a series of latest satellite photos showing that North Korea has not stopped the missile program, and the progress is ahead. Dozens of secret bases continue to operate. The New York Times has criticized that North Korea is basically Conduct large-scale scams.


Thomas Karako, Research Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies: "North Korea continues to engage in missile activities in the back, working in some way, including during and after the Singapore (Han Dynasty) summit."


The indisputable facts are in front of us. The satellite missiles are distributed in 13 locations, including three bases capable of launching Scud, Mars 12 and Ludong missiles. The other four are even suspected to be capable of intercontinental missile attacks. The South Korean Defense Ministry said it has mastered the situation and is closely monitoring it.


Official of the South Korean Staff Headquarters: "The contract staff headquarters and the local area are closely monitored with the assistance of Korean and American military personnel."


In order to avoid surveillance, North Korea hides the missile base in the underground tunnel between the narrow valleys. This makes the privacy high. Apart from the entrances, it can hardly see anything special. It is mobile and efficient. At any time, you can attack the enemy without being prepared.


Thomas Karako, researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies: "Those secret tunnels may be disguised to protect vehicles carrying missiles or carrying missiles. They are sent directly from a (central) entrance to a location for launch, everything Can be completed in the shortest possible time."


One of them is more directly threatening the front line of South Korea, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the Armistice Armed Areas of the two Koreas, and 128 kilometers (80 miles) from Seoul. Even if it launches short-range missiles, it will directly harm millions of lives in the South Korean capital. .


Thomas Karako, Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies: "A short-range ballistic missile can reach US bases and South Korean bases, Seoul and other places."


U.S. President Trump, who often boasted of progress in the North Korean nuclear abolition, has grown bigger.


US President Trump: "The missile (testing) has stopped and the rocket (plan) has stopped."


The former US Secretary of Defense and several senators criticized the US military commanders and were swayed by young dictators.


Former US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel: "(North Korea) has not issued any statement, agreed to anything, or signed a framework agreement, and everything is what Trump is saying."


However, on the cusp of the limelight, South Korean President Wen Zai, who is attending the ASEAN Summit in Singapore, is still making a way out for North Korea. He plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s top leader Xi Jinping to discuss the easing of sanctions against North Korea. Taiwan also slowed its cheeks, saying that North Korea’s lack of a public secret base did not mean deception, causing a slap in the wild.


South Korean opposition party member: "(Caiwattian spokesman) Is he a spokesman for Chairman Kim Jong-un? Or is the president of the country speaking for Kim Jong-un, why is there such a statement that I cannot understand?"


This allowed the next meeting between Kim Jong-un and Trump's second head of state to increase the difficulty. The Japanese side also said that if North Korea's nuclear abolition has not progressed, it will not rule out next spring, and then launch joint training between Japan and the United States.


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The UN report confirms that North Korea’s "nuclearization" is still empty talk



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The UN report confirms that North Korea’s "nuclearization" is still empty talk
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The United Nations released a North Korean research report on Friday. The report pointed out that North Korea is still developing nuclear weapons and missiles. In addition to the two US think tanks, satellite photos were released at the end of last month, suspecting that North Korea’s secret production could directly attack the US Mars 15 missile.

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Today, 73 years ago, Hiroshima, Japan became the first place to be attacked by an atomic bomb.

Until now, Hiroshima people still ring the clock to pray for peace every day. It’s just that the latest UN report confirms that North Korea is still threatening international stability.

Reporter: "In addition to continuing to develop nuclear weapons and missiles, North Korea also sold weapons to Yemen rebels, which are in violation of UN resolutions."

This is a 62-page report written by a team of UN experts. North Korea continues to develop nuclear weapons and missiles, which coincides with the report of the Washington Post.

The Washington Post last week quoted US think tanks as saying that North Korea’s Sanyin Cave in the suburbs of Pyongyang is suspected of producing one or two ballistic missiles, and it is still capable of hitting the Mars 15 in the United States.

Another think tank report also pointed out that the "Fairy" on the outskirts of Pyongyang, a facility surrounded by a 1km façade, did not have snow in the winter, and it was suspected that the facility was emitting high temperatures. Therefore, it is suspected that it is used by North Korea for enrichment. Uranium factory.

In other words, even if North Korea bombed nuclear experimental facilities in front of the international media, it did not mean that they could not continue to produce nuclear weapons and missiles.

The reporter quoted Pompeo as saying: "Kim Jong-un promised to denuclearize, but this is not in line with their current behavior. There is still a long way to go to reach the ultimate goal of our expectations."

Brooklyn, commander of the US military in South Korea: "Their manufacturing capacity is still unaffected, and North Korea is a country with different appearances."

North Korea’s two-faced approach, South Koreans look at it this way.

Former South Korean Unification Minister Ding Shizhen: "The attitude of the United States will be "let us stop immediately (developing nuclear weapons)", "you have to finalize the final declaration" and the "normalization of national relations", I think ( Nuclear weapons) is the "reaction card."

Despite this, US President Trump is still full of confidence in his full control of Kim Jong-un.

US President Trump: "No one said it was easy, but we will not stop here."

US reporter: "North Korea now agrees to complete denuclearization."

US President Trump: "I will never let you down."

North Korea’s denuclearization may be just empty talk. The peace that Hiroshima people want can only continue to wait.

Hiroshima people: "Peace can last forever."

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Satellite images reveal hidden North Korean missile bases
By Zachary Cohen, CNN

Updated 1149 GMT (1949 HKT) November 13, 2018






Washington (CNN)New commercial satellite images released Monday have identified more than a dozen undeclared North Korean missile operating bases, another sign that Pyongyang is continuing to move forward with its ballistic missile program amid indications that talks with the US have stalled in recent months.
While the network of undeclared sites has long been known to American intelligence agencies, it has not been publicly acknowledged by President Donald Trump, who asserted that North Korea was "no longer a nuclear threat" following his June summit with dictator Kim Jong Un.
The CIA declined to comment on the images, but US officials have expressed concern about North Korea using hidden and undeclared locations to continue to work on improving their missile technology and possibly their nuclear program.
The new images, first reported by The New York Times, show researchers at the Beyond Parallel program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies have identified 13 of an estimated 20 hidden missile operating bases unreported by the North Korean government.
"These missile operating bases, which can be used for all classes of ballistic missile from short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) up to and including intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), would presumably have to be subject to declaration, verification, and dismantlement in any final and fully verifiable denuclearization deal," the report states.

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US intelligence has long assessed that the North Koreans have stored much of their weapons capability, including mobile missile launchers, in underground mountain bunkers.
Specifically, the images focus on the Sakkanmol missile base, which "currently houses a unit equipped with short-range ballistic missiles but could easily accommodate more capable medium-range ballistic warheads."
"Despite the difference in interpretation between the US government and the North Koreans over what these declarations have meant, the Singapore declaration and the new Korean declaration, for North Korea watchers it has been pretty clear that the North has not been willing to give up its entire nuclear program," Lisa Collins a fellow with the Korea Chair at CSIS and one of the authors of the report, told CNN.
However, an official with South Korea's Blue House called the report "nothing new" and told media Tuesday "the United States and South Korean intelligence service hold more detailed information using the military satellites," and that nuclear sites couldn't be "undeclared" as there had been no agreement with North Korea to declare them.
The official went on to say that North Korea had not previously pledged to close the Sakkanmol Missile Base, the focus of CSIS's report, saying, "There had been no treaty or negotiation that mandated closing the missile base."
Monday's report comes days after Trump told reporters his administration is "very happy with how it's going with North Korea" despite the administration's announcement, in the middle of the night as last week's midterm elections results were coming in, that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's meeting with a key aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had been postponed.
Trump has conveyed a starkly different image than the one painted by US military officials, foreign diplomats and sources familiar with developments who told CNN that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is "really angry" about the US refusal to offer sanctions relief and that personal friction between US and North Korean negotiators may be slowing progress.
A source familiar with the ongoing dance between officials in Washington and Pyongyang previously told CNN that North Korea's stance is that the US "must make a move before we make the next one."
But the US appears unwilling to oblige, at the moment, according to a US official, who said the Trump administration wants to move away from the "tit-for-tat" approach of the past.
"There has been a move away from past administrations' approach to North Korea in terms of 'we will give you a little here if you give us a little there' ... kind of a tit-for-tat piece. ... We haven't seen that work in the past, so the President is insistent on holding the full pressure campaign until he gets the full denuclearization," a US official told CNN.
North Korea has often argued it is unable to provide comprehensive details about the locations of its nuclear and missile sites because that could serve as a target list should the situation escalate into an armed conflict. But Collins said that the hope is that "this type of analysis and data would help to push forward the negotiations rather than cause more blockage."
"It would actually get rid of one of the primary excuses or reasons why North Korea has not produced a list," she said, adding that "open source and independent data" can help the process as US officials might be wary of publicly disclosing information that they believe could compromise sources and methods.
When asked about Monday's new report, a State Department spokesperson implored Kim to "follow through on his commitments -- including complete denuclearization and the elimination of ballistic missile programs."

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"President Trump has made clear that should Chairman Kim follow through on his commitments — including complete denuclearization and the elimination of ballistic missile programs — a much brighter future lies ahead for North Korea and its people," the spokesperson told CNN.
But experts point out that Kim has not offered to stop producing ballistic missiles, let alone unilaterally give them up, and said on New Year's Day that he would continue to mass-produce ballistic missiles and deploy those that have already been tested.
Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said Monday that the images once again show that Trump's comments on North Korea have been a "fabrication."
"The North Koreans have not signed any document working out, laying out, what steps they are going to take to denuclearize," Hagel said. "There has been nothing stated, agreed to, framed signed, except what President Trump says they've said ... but now ... we have a whole different story, and it is the reality, it is not fantasy," he added.
Vipin Narang, an associate professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studies nuclear proliferation, told CNN that Kim's actions do not amount to "deception since he said on New Year's Day that North Korea would mass-produce and deploy its missiles that it already tested."
Narang added that the images released Monday identify "operating bases which, until and unless there is a deal, Kim can't eliminate without undermining his security."
Asked about the State Department's response to Monday's report, Narang called the assertion that North Korea has committed to eliminating its ballistic missile programs is "misleading."
"There has been no agreement or discussion remotely that detailed --- even on nuclear systems, and many of these are short range conventional missiles which North Korea has never said were on the table," he told CNN.
Jeffrey Lewis, an arms control expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, told CNN that experts have known about these sites for years, and it is no surprise that they remain operational given Kim's declaration in January that North Korea would shift from research and development to the mass-production of nuclear systems.
"Kim didn't dupe Trump. Trump duped himself," Lewis said, noting that North Korea has never offered to unilaterally disarm.
Sakkanmol missile base is one of the facilities where North Korea deploys its mass produced systems, he said.
Still, Trump has sought to convey the image that progress continues to be made and teased a possible second summit with Kim in the near future.
"We're in no rush. We're in no hurry," Trump told reporters at a White House press conference last week. "The sanctions are on. The missiles have stopped. The rockets have stopped. The hostages are home. The great heroes are home."
While North Korea claims that it has taken some steps toward denuclearization, experts say those moves are largely cosmetic and easily reversible. Kim's regime has shuttered a missile engine testing facility; destroyed the entrances to its nuclear test site; and promised to close the Yongbyon nuclear facility, where North Korea is believed to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons, if Washington takes what it calls "corresponding measures."
In July, Trump touted indications that North Korea had begun dismantling "a key missile site" after the prominent monitoring group 38 North published images showing Pyongyang had begun decommissioning its Sohae Satellite Launching Station.
But while that step attracted significant media attention at the time, Monday's report states that the dismantling of the Sohae facility "obscures the military threat to US forces and South Korea from this and other undeclared ballistic missile bases."
Collins told CNN that she believes one reason North Korea canceled the latest round of talks with Pompeo is because they might be targeting "the very top levels of negotiations" -- another meeting between Trump and Kim.
However, she also warned that "you can't get anywhere without these working-level talks because that's where the nitty-gritty stuff happens."
"You can't get a verifiable list of anything unless nuclear weapons experts are part of the process," she said. "Is President Trump going to create a list of all those facilities? Does he even know where some of these places are? I would be very skeptical."
"There have to be working-level talks, but the North Koreans are clearly targeting a big package deal, for them, which can only happen if President Trump is there to make the decision," Collins added. "But I think the US has been very cautious and careful to keep the negotiations moving forward at the working level and try not to have President Trump jump every time there is an offer."
CNN's Nicole Gaouette, Michelle Kosinski, Barbara Starr and Jennifer Hansler contributed reporting

 

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North Korea is under crippling sanctions imposed for carrying out nuclear and ballistic missile tests, but UN resolutions specify that these should not affect humanitarian aid. (AFP/STR)

13 Nov 2018 03:17AM (Updated: 13 Nov 2018 07:26AM)
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WASHINGTON: North Korea is operating at least 13 undeclared bases to hide mobile, nuclear-capable missiles, a new study released on Monday (Nov 12) has found, raising fresh doubts over US President Donald Trump's signature foreign policy initiative.
Trump has hailed his June summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as having opened the way to denuclearisation of the divided peninsula, defusing tensions that less than a year ago brought the two countries to the brink of conflict.

READ: Highlights: Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's historic summit
Since the summit in Singapore, North Korea has forgone nuclear and missile tests, dismantled a missile test site and promised to also break up the country's main nuclear complex.
But researchers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington said they have located 13 missile operating bases that have not been declared by the government, and that there may be as many as 20.
"It's not like these bases have been frozen," Victor Cha, who leads CSIS's North Korea program, told The New York Times, which first reported on the study.

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"Work is continuing. What everybody is worried about is that Trump is going to accept a bad deal - they give us a single test site and dismantle a few other things, and in return they get a peace agreement."
Cha had been in line for appointment as US ambassador to South Korea, but was dropped because of disagreement with the Trump administration's approach.
While US sanctions on North Korea remain in place, enforcement by traditional trading partners China and Russia has relaxed since the summit, US officials have acknowledged.
The bases, which are scattered across the country, are located in underground facilities tunneled in narrow mountain valleys, according to the researchers.
They are designed to enable mobile missile launchers to quickly exit the underground facilities and move to previously prepared launch sites.
"Any missile at these bases can take a nuclear warhead," the report's co-author, Joseph Bermudez, an authority on North Korea, told the Times.
The bases are arranged in three belts across North Korea, according to the report, with those for strategic missiles deep inside the country.
Medium-range missiles capable of striking Japan and all of South Korea reportedly are deployed in an operational belt 55 to 100 miles (90 to 150 kilometres) north of the demilitarised zone.
Bases for shorter range missiles fit into a tactical belt 30 to 55 miles from the DMZ.
The researchers relied on satellite imagery, defector interviews and interviews with intelligence and government officials for their findings.
SAKKANMOL
The report included a detailed profile of one such tactical missile operating base, illustrated with commercial satellite imagery, just 84 miles northwest of Seoul.
The imagery shows barely visible entrances to seven underground facilities at the Sakkanmol missile base - each protected from artillery fire and air strikes by 60-foot-high (18-meter) berms made from rock and dirt excavated from the site.
The size of the entrances, as well as the volume of soil removed, indicates the base could house a brigade-size missile unit with up to 18 mobile launchers, the report said.
Concealed under two earth-covered shelters near one of the entrances is a drive-through facility where missile launchers are armed, fuelled and maintained.
Barracks, administration facilities, support buildings and greenhouses for food are visible further down the valley.
The entrances to the underground facilities "are frequently hidden from sight in satellite imagery during spring and summer, just visible during fall and visible in winter after a snowfall," the report said.
The Times said the Pentagon had planned to begin deploying a new generation of small, inexpensive satellites to track North Korea's mobile missiles, but the program has been held up by bureaucratic and budget disputes.
STALLED NEGOTIATIONS
Trump has said he hopes to meet again soon with Kim, but there are signs of growing friction in the negotiations with North Korean officials, which appear to have stalled.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had been scheduled to meet Kim's right-hand man, Kim Yong Chol, in New York last week to discuss denuclearization efforts and prepare for a possible second summit, according to the State Department.
But on Thursday, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said North Korea postponed the meeting "because they weren't ready."
The United States, meanwhile, has delayed approval of several requests for exemptions to UN sanctions to deliver tractors, spare parts and other humanitarian relief supplies to North Korea, according to documents seen by AFP.
Source: AFP/ec

 

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North Korea is still working on its ballistic missile program, say U.S. officials
Recent intel and satellite photos of work on undeclared missile sites underscore that regardless of Trump's statements, North Korean nukes remain a threat.

A Digital Globe satellite image taken on March 29, 2018 shows what the Center for Strategic and International Studies Beyond Parallel project reports is an undeclared missile operating base at Sakkanmol, North Korea.CSIS/Beyond Parallel/DigitalGlobe 2018 via Reuters


Nov. 13, 2018 / 4:34 AM GMT+8
By Ken Dilanian, Courtney Kube and Andrea Mitchell
WASHINGTON — North Korea is continuing work on its ballistic missile program, U.S. officials briefed on recent intelligence tell NBC News, confirming the gist of a private report Monday detailing recent improvements made at undeclared military sites.
A separate analysis by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, provided exclusively to NBC News, describes a secret military base deep in North Korea’s interior that analysts believe could house missiles capable of reaching the United States.


American defense officials stressed that they consider it a positive development that North Korea has not conducted a nuclear test since September 2017.
"North Korea has continued its ballistic missile program at a number of bases but it's significant that they have not tested one in nearly a year," one official said. "We need to give the diplomats time and space to work."
Nonetheless, the recent intelligence, and the private satellite photos of work on undeclared missile sites, underscore the widespread belief among experts that President Donald Trump's pronouncement that the world no longer has to worry about a North Korean nuclear program is divorced from reality.
"It looks as if it is a political charade, and it's a dangerous one," retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey told NBC News. "In the short term, North Korea is the most consequential threat to U.S. national security we're facing....They have nuclear weapons, they have delivery systems, they are not going to denuclearize. So I think the outcome of all of this is we're loosening the economic constraints on these people and we're kidding ourselves."





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The private report released Monday said researchers had identified 13 of an estimated 20 undeclared North Korean missile bases, and included a detailed analysis of one facility, the Sakkanmol Missile Operating Base, about 50 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea.

The report was prepared by a group called Beyond Parallel, a program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. It was led by Victor Cha, a former diplomat who was considered by the Trump administration for the job of ambassador to South Korea, but could not get on board with Trump's approach.
Separately, Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, provided NBC News with his group’s analysis of one of the most important facilities, located near Yeongjeo-dong, deep in the interior of North Korea and extending to the Chinese border.
The location makes it a strong candidate for basing North Korea’s longest range missiles, Lewis has concluded. The site has been identified by defectors, but Lewis found it on satellite imagery and observed work ongoing there as recently as last year.
“The missile facility at Yeongjeo-dong remains an active military base, with a number of hardened and underground structures for launching ballistic missiles,” Lewis wrote. While one defector said it was built to house medium-range Nodong missiles, “other evidence suggests the site was constructed to house longer range-missiles that would need to be rolled out from tunnels, erected and launched."

After Trump met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a historic summit in Singapore in June, North Korea did not agree to stop working on its nuclear program. Instead, Kim signed a vague declaration agreeing to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," a phrase that was not defined.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last month that a second summit between the two leaders would be scheduled as part of diplomatic talks that he described as promising. But even as these talks have been ongoing, North Korea continues to work on its nuclear program. U.S. intelligence officials, including CIA Director Gina Haspel, have expressed public skepticism about the North's willingness to give up its weapons.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korean leader's sister Kim Yo Jong look on as President Donald J. Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un sign a document during their historic DPRK-US summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island, Singapore on June 12, 2018.Kevin Lim / EPA file
Answering questions after a speech in Louisville in September, Haspel noted that Kim Jong Un's government views nuclear weapons as "essential to their regime's survival."



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Trump, in a June tweet, declared that "There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea," a view that is not shared by any of his top national security officials, or the American intelligence community.
NBC News reported in June that U.S. intelligence agencies had detected that North Korea has increased its production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites even as Trump and Kim were meeting — and that Kim would seek to hide those facilities as he tries to extract concessions in nuclear talks with the Trump administration.
The Washington Post corroborated that story, reporting that intelligence agencies had concluded that North Korea "does not intend to fully surrender its nuclear stockpile, and instead is considering ways to conceal the number of weapons it has and secret production facilities."
North Korea has offered to dismantle a missile site even as it has been improving other sites in full view of American spy satellites, underscoring the regime's continued work on its missile programs, officials tell NBC News. Experts also say they have no reason to believe North Korea has stopped production of nuclear fuel. The North already has as many as 60 nuclear bombs, intelligence estimates suggest.

A Digital Globe satellite image taken on March 29, 2018 shows what the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Beyond Parallel project reports is an undeclared missile operating base at Sakkanmol, North Korea. It was provided to Reuters on Nov. 12, 2018.CSIS/Beyond Parallel/DigitalGlobe 2018 via Reuters
But Trump continues to suggest, without evidence, that he is solving the North Korea problem.

"The sanctions are on," Trump said at a news conference last week. "The missiles have stopped. The rockets have stopped. The hostages are home."
Experts say, however, that the global sanctions regime on North Korea has weakened in recent months, in part because Russia and China have stepped up trade with North Korea.
Many observers argue that Trump has been played by Kim.

A Digital Globe satellite image taken on March 29, 2018 shows what the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Beyond Parallel project reports is an undeclared missile operating base at Sakkanmol, North Korea. The image was provided to Reuters on Nov. 12, 2018.CSIS/Beyond Parallel/DigitalGlobe 2018 via Reuters
"Kim didn't dupe Trump. Trump duped himself," tweeted Jeffrey Lewis, an arms control expert who studies North Korea closely.

"Kim pocketed the legitimacy that the leader of the free world gave the dictator of a rogue state and has not even provided a list of his nuclear weapons, missiles, and facilities, let alone get rid of them," said Ivan Eland, a senior fellow at the Independent Institute, a California think tank.
"Because no viable military option exists to take out North Korea's missiles and nuclear arsenal," said Eland, "the U.S. will eventually need to use its vastly superior atomic arsenal to deter an attack from a nuclear North Korea — as it has successfully done with more formidable nuclear foes, such as the Soviet Union, Russia, and China."
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Ken Dilanian is a national security reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
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Courtney Kube is a national security and military reporter for NBC News, covering the Pentagon, U.S. military operations all over the world, and intelligence and national security issues.
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By Marta Subat on November 14, 2018 News

New commercial satellite images have identified more than a dozen undeclared North Korean missile operating bases in another sign that Pyongyang is continuing to move forward with its ballistic missile program amid indications that talks with the US have stalled.

While the network of undeclared sites has long been known to American intelligence agencies, it has not been publicly acknowledged by President Donald Trump, who asserted that North Korea was “no longer a nuclear threat” following his June summit with dictator Kim Jong Un.

The CIA declined to comment on the images released this week, but US officials have expressed concern about North Korea using hidden and undeclared locations to continue to work on improving their missile technology and possibly their nuclear program.

The new images, first reported by The New York Times, show researchers at the Beyond Parallel program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies have identified 13 of an estimated 20 hidden missile operating bases unreported by the North Korean government.

“These missile operating bases, which can be used for all classes of ballistic missile from short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) up to and including intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), would presumably have to be subject to declaration, verification, and dismantlement in any final and fully verifiable denuclearisation deal,” the report stated.

US intelligence has long assessed that the North Koreans have stored much of their weapons capability, including mobile missile launchers, in underground mountain bunkers.

Specifically, the images focus on the Sakkanmol missile base, which “currently houses a unit equipped with short-range ballistic missiles but could easily accommodate more capable medium-range ballistic warheads.”

The report comes days after Trump told reporters his administration is “very happy with how it’s going with North Korea”.

That is despite the administration’s announcement, in the middle of the night as last week’s midterm elections results were coming in, that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s meeting with a key aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had been postponed.

Trump has conveyed a starkly different image than the one painted by US military officials, foreign diplomats and sources familiar with developments who told CNN that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is “really angry” about the US refusal to offer sanctions relief and that personal friction between US and North Korean negotiators may be slowing progress.

A source familiar with the ongoing dance between officials in Washington and Pyongyang previously told CNN that North Korea’s stance is that the US “must make a move before we make the next one.”

But the US appears unwilling to oblige, at the moment, according to a US official, who said the Trump administration wants to move away from the “tit-for-tat” approach of the past.

“There has been a move away from past administrations’ approach to North Korea in terms of ‘we will give you a little here if you give us a little there’… kind of a tit-for-tat piece,” a US official told CNN.

“We haven’t seen that work in the past, so the President is insistent on holding the full pressure campaign until he gets the full denuclearisation.”

When asked about the new report, a State Department spokesperson implored Kim to “follow through on his commitments — including complete denuclearisation and the elimination of ballistic missile programs.”

“President Trump has made clear that should Chairman Kim follow through on his commitments — including complete denuclearisation and the elimination of ballistic missile programs — a much brighter future lies ahead for North Korea and its people,” the spokesperson told CNN.

But experts point out that Kim has not offered to stop producing ballistic missiles, let alone unilaterally give them up, and said on New Year’s Day that he would continue to mass-produce ballistic missiles and deploy those that have already been tested.

Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said on Monday that the images once again show that Trump’s comments on North Korea have been a “fabrication.”

“The North Koreans have not signed any document working out, laying out, what steps they are going to take to denuclearize,” Hagel said.

“There has been nothing stated, agreed to, framed signed, except what President Trump says they’ve said… but now… we have a whole different story, and it is the reality, it is not fantasy.”

Vipin Narang, an associate professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studies nuclear proliferation, told CNN that Kim’s actions do not amount to “deception since he said on New Year’s Day that North Korea would mass-produce and deploy its missiles that it already tested.”

Narang added that the images identify “operating bases which, until and unless there is a deal, Kim can’t eliminate without undermining his security.”

Asked about the State Department’s response to the report, Narang called the assertion that North Korea has committed to eliminating its ballistic missile programs is “misleading.”

“There has been no agreement or discussion remotely that detailed — even on nuclear systems, and many of these are short range conventional missiles which North Korea has never said were on the table,” he told CNN.

Jeffrey Lewis, an arms control expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, told CNN that experts have known about these sites for years, and it is no surprise that they remain operational given Kim’s declaration in January that North Korea would shift from research and development to the mass-production of nuclear systems.

“Kim didn’t dupe Trump. Trump duped himself,” he said, noting that North Korea has never offered to unilaterally disarm.

Sakkanmol missile base is one of the facilities where North Korea deploys its mass produced systems, he said.

Still, Trump has sought to convey the image that progress continues to be made and teased a possible second summit with Kim in the near future.

“We’re in no rush. We’re in no hurry,” Trump told reporters at a White House press conference last week.

“The sanctions are on. The missiles have stopped. The rockets have stopped. The hostages are home. The great heroes are home.”

While North Korea claims that it has taken some steps toward denuclearisation, experts say those moves are largely cosmetic and easily reversible.

Kim’s regime has shuttered a missile engine testing facility, destroyed the entrances to its nuclear test site and promised to close the Yongbyon nuclear facility, where North Korea is believed to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons, if Washington takes what it calls “corresponding measures.”

In July, Trump touted indications that North Korea had begun dismantling “a key missile site” after the prominent monitoring group 38 North published images showing Pyongyang had begun decommissioning its Sohae Satellite Launching Station.

But while that step attracted significant media attention at the time, Monday’s report states that the dismantling of the Sohae facility “obscures the military threat to US forces and South Korea from this and other undeclared ballistic missile bases.”

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