US detects new missile activity in North Korea
US spy satellites have detected new activity at a North Korean factory near the capital that produces ballistic missiles capable of reaching the US mainland, an official told The Washington Post on Monday.
This new activity could strain peace negotiations that started in the June summit between leaders Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un in which North Korea committed to the denuclearization of the peninsula.
Nevertheless, Pyongyang had offered no details as to how it might go about the denuclearization and later talks between the US and North Korea have not gone smoothly.
An official told Reuters that photos and infrared imaging indicate vehicles moving in and out of the facility but offered no details of how advanced construction of the missiles might be.
There are also pictures of a truck with a trailer similar to those previously used to move missiles, but since it was covered US intelligence could not know what it was carrying nor if it was carrying anything at all.
Last week, appearing before the Senate Foreign Relation Committee, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said North Korean factories "continue to produce fissile material" used in making nuclear weapons. He also said that concrete denuclearization took time and was a long process.