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Secret military base near North Korea-China border raises nuclear threat alert for Asia and US
2025-08-21 11:12:03 / BOTA
North Korea has built a secret military base near its border with China that could house Pyongyang's newest long-range ballistic missiles, according to a new study.
The "undeclared" Sinpung-dong missile operating base is located about 27 km (17 miles) from the Chinese border, the Washington-based organization, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), said in a report published on Wednesday.
The study said the facility in North Pyongan province likely houses six to nine intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of carrying nuclear weapons and their launchers.
The weapons were said to pose a potential nuclear threat to East Asia and the continental United States.
North Korea has ramped up its nuclear weapons program since a failed summit with the United States in 2019, and leader Kim Jong-un recently called for the "rapid expansion" of the diplomatically isolated country's nuclear capability.
The report – which CSIS called the first in-depth, open-source confirmation of Sinpung-dong – said the base is one of about “15-20 ballistic missile bases, maintenance, support, missile storage and nuclear warhead storage facilities that North Korea has never declared.”
The study said it is not known whether the facility has been the subject of any previous denuclearization negotiations between the United States and North Korea.
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