Secret missile site uncovered in N.Korea

Secret missile site uncovered in N.Korea

Washington: Experts have revealed an undeclared site that reportedly serves as the headquarters of one of North Koreas ballistic missile programmes, the media reported on Tuesday. The Sino-ri site, one of 20 North Korea is suspected of failing to declare, houses medium-range Nodong missiles that could be used in nuclear or conventional attacks on South Korea, Japan and the US territory of Guam, according to a report by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. “The Sino-ri missile operating base and the Nodong missiles deployed at this location fit into North Korea’s presumed nuclear military strategy by providing an operational-level nuclear or conventional first-strike capability,” the Guardian quoted the report, co-written by analyst Victor Cha, as saying on Monday night. Located 212 km north of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, the Sino-ri complex is a 18 sq km base that houses a regiment-sized unit equipped with Nodong-1 medium-range missiles, it said. (IANS)

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