North Korea is restoring facilities at a long-range rocket launch site that it dismantled last year as part of disarmament steps, according to foreign experts and a South Korean lawmaker who was briefed by Seoul’s spy service.
The finding follows a high-stakes nuclear summit last week between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump that ended without any agreement.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service provided the assessment about the North’s Tongchang-ri launch site to lawmakers during a private briefing Tuesday.
North Korea didn’t immediately respond in its state media.
In early 2018, North Korea abruptly expressed its intention to deal away its weapons arsenal in return for political and economic benefits.
The North has since suspended nuclear and missile tests and dismantled its underground nuclear testing site.
A statement issued by Kim and Moon categorized the steps as parts of a broader goal to make the Korean Peninsula free from nuclear weapons and nuclear threat.
This could suggest that North Korea acknowledged that the Tongchang-ri site is a nuclear-related facility.
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