North Korea, North Korea, Missile ... During close watch"
2018-11-13
Anchor : The South Korean government says it already has a detailed understanding of the North Korean missile base. It also emphasized that the South Korean intelligence authorities are closely monitoring North Korea's missile base through military satellites.
A report from Seoul's Jung Yong Jae reports.
SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean government official says it is monitoring and tracking major missile-handling sites in North Korea.
The report on North Korea 's Saksantom missile bases, released by the US Strategic and International Studies Institute on December 12, is an indication that there is nothing new.
"The source of the report from the Institute for Strategic and International Studies is the commercial satellite," the South Korean spokeswoman Kim Hyung-keun said at a regular press briefing on the 13th. "The ROK intelligence authorities were already aware of the details using military satellites." .
South Korea's defense ministry also said that the Saksan Military missile base, which the Institute for Strategic and International Studies has addressed, is a place where surveillance is being conducted for the sake of the ROK-US cooperation. The South Korean Foreign Ministry also emphasized that the US intelligence agency closely monitors and tracks North Korea's major missile-related areas.
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Roh Gyu - deok : We are interested in monitoring the area in cooperation with the United States. However, please understand that it is difficult to confirm specific North Korean information.
According to the South Korean Presidential Office, short-range missiles are being operated at the Saksagomi missile base.
Kim Dae-jung, a spokesman for Cheong Wa Dae, said, "The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Korea has disclosed that North Korea possesses more than 1,000 short-range missiles through defense white paper."
He also emphasized that the Saksagomi missile base is independent of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and medium range ballistic missile (IRBM).
Kim said, "The presence of these missile bases makes the need for negotiations and negotiations to be concluded in the early stages of the North-South (denuclearization) negotiations."
The US New York Times quoted a report on a report by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies saying that it was "not a proper statement" about the use of the phrase "big tricks".
Kim said, "North Korea has never promised to dismantle its missile base," and "There is also an expression called 'unsinkable base.' No agreement has yet to exist that requires reporting."
The spokesman Kim said, "The contents of 'Mischinos' and 'big tricks' can be misleading when we need to have a dialogue with North Korea." Such expressions can prevent negotiations from starting "I explained.
We also emphasized that the short-range missiles that North Korea is operating are also a problem that must be discussed together in the process of complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
Earlier, the Institute for Strategic and International Studies said in a report on North Korea's Saksan Mission Missile Operations Center that it had identified 13 missile bases in North Korea. The report points out that while some of the missile bases are under maintenance, maintenance, and facility improvement activities have been observed even while the North Korea negotiations are in progress.
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