New North Korean Missile Base Identified in Open Source Report

What Happened?

A new North Korean missile base has been identified in a report issued by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). According to the CSIS report, the base, which has not been publicly acknowledged by North Korea, is in a valley near the village of Sinpung-dong, in north Pyongyang province, about 17 miles from the Chinese border.

Key features of the previously undisclosed base include barracks, an underground facility and two hardened, drive-through missile checkout bays where launchers can undergo maintenance, systems checks and arming. Reinforced shelters large enough to accommodate transporter erector launchers and multi-vehicle mobile erector launcher systems for rapid deployment are also in place at the base.

Why it Matters

The newly identified base has likely been operational since 2014 according to the CSIS report. While North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un claims nuclear weapons are for self-defense and to deter South Korea and the United States from attacking North Korea, the real reasons are more complex. For North Korea, nuclear weapons also likely serve a political purpose for their relationship with China, upon whom the North Korean economy depends for survival.  

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China is keen to keep North Korea dependent on Chinese exports for economic survival, which gives Beijing considerable leverage over Pyongyang. Since North Korea’s regime does not want to expand economic ties to other nations, they have little choice but to rely on Chinese imports to survive.

There is a history of mutual mistrust between North Korea and China, and North Korean nuclear weapons give Pyongyang a way to assert a degree of political independence from China. 

Kim Jong-Un often boasts that North Korea has missiles that can carry nuclear warheads and can reach the continental United States. Though North Korea has never successfully tested such a missile, the tests they have conducted indicate that they could at least theoretically reach the mainland of the United States.

The implied threat is clear, any attack by South Korea or the U.S. on North Korea would result in North Korea targeting the United States with nuclear weapons.

North Korea’s increasing belligerence has strengthened the ties between the United States and South Korea, and between Japan and the United States. To counter those alliances, North Korea has signed a defense treaty with China and most recently with Russia, which means any conflict that arose on the Korean peninsular could quickly escalate into war on a global scale. 

How it Affects You

A generation ago, Americans lived under the shadow of a possible Soviet nuclear attack, and it is likely the current generation will have to get used to the possibility of a North Korean nuclear attack today.

Short of regime change which seems unlikely or a major military conflict which would be devastating, the reality of a nuclear armed North Korea appears to be here to stay.

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