The East Asian country is reportedly “pursuing a rapid rebuilding” at the site.
WASHINGTON, March 5 - North Korea has restored part of a missile launch site it began to dismantle after pledging to do so in a first summit with U.S. President Donald Trump last year, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency and two U.S. think tanks reported on Tuesday.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies released a report, also citing satellite imagery, that concluded North Korea is “pursuing a rapid rebuilding” at the site. Trump did not identify the site, but a U.S. official subsequently told Reuters it was the Sohae Satellite LaunchingGround, which is located at Tongchang-ri.
Signs that North Korea had begun acting on its pledge to Trump were detected in July when a Washington think tank said satellite images indicated work had begun at Sohae to dismantle a building used to assemble space-launch vehicles and a nearby rocket engine test stand used to develop liquid-fuel engines for ballistic missiles and space-launch vehicles.
The breakdown of the summit in Hanoi last week has raised questions about the future of U.S.-North Korea dialog. U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Palladino told a news briefing that the United States remains “in regular contact” with North Korea, but he declined to say whether they had been in contact since the summit.
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