New activity seen at test stand of N. Korea’s SLBM development site: 38 North

May 5, 2017

Yonhap News Agency:

Recent satellite imagery indicates new activity at the test stand of North Korea’s main submarine-launched ballistic missile development shipyard in a move that suggests the communist nation is planning to accelerate its SLBM program, a website monitoring the North said Thursday.

The April 29 imagery of the Sinpo South Shipyard shows a heavy-lift crane with its stabilizer legs deployed and boom extended out over the test stand’s service tower, and a 13-meter-long flatbed truck adjacent to it on the access road, 38 North said.

The test stand was used during 2014-2016 for launch systems verification, and pop-up and prototype testing of the Pukguksong-1 (KN-11) submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), it said…

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