The activity around the launch site was captured on satellite imagery, per report.
Intelligence within the South Korean government reported Tuesday that North Korea has begun to reassemble launch sites for long-range missiles. Just days after President Donald Trump’s Hanoi Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Yonhap News Agency reported new activity at a North Korean nuclear launch site.
"This renewed activity, taken just two days after the inconclusive Hanoi Summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, may indicate North Korean plans to demonstrate resolve in the face of U.S. rejection of North Korea's demands at the summit to lift five U.N. Security Council sanctions enacted in 2016-2017," the NBC report read.
"The activity they are undertaking now is consistent with preparations for a test, though the imagery thus far does not show a missile being moved to the launch pad," Cha said."The activity on the ground … shows us that they do have a capability that is not just developmental, but in the prototype phase. They've already tested a few of these and it looks like they're preparing the launch pad for another act.
"The facility has been dormant since August 2018, indicating the current activity is deliberate and purposeful," the report stated, though other researchers claimed they witnessed low-level activity at the site during the otherwise dormant months.
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