North Korea Expanding Missile-Manufacturing Plant, Report Finds
A submarine-launched ballistic missile Pukguksong during a military parade at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on April 15, 2017.
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North Korea continued to develop a key rocket-engine facility in the run-up to Kim Jong Un’s summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to an independent analysis of satellite imagery.
The Middlebury Institute of International Studies report found that North Korea has recently expanded a factory complex in the eastern city of Hamhung that produces key engines for solid-fuel ballistic missiles. The factory also makes other missile components, including re-entry vehicles for warheads that could be used on longer-range missiles capable of reaching the U.S.