Seoul plays down media claim on North Korea's missile base

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Seoul plays down media claim on North Korea's missile base

By Wooyoung Lee     |     Nov. 13, 2018 at 5:54 AM
 
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- South Korea's presidential office said that South Korea and the United States have been aware of the North Korean missile base, which a U.S. think tank revealed and claimed to be active based on commercial satellite images.

"The South Korean and U.S. intelligence officials know about the missile base in much more detail. We have been watching this site and there has been nothing new from this," said Kim Eui-kyeom, a presidential spokesman said in a press briefing on Tuesday.

Kim said the missile base, reported to be the Sakkanmol Missile Operating Base by the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Beyond Parallel project on Monday, is for short-range missiles and North Korea hasn't signed any agreement which obligates them to close it.

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