An NBC News report on a “secret” North Korean missile base isn’t news in South Korea. The base in the village of Sino has been cited repeatedly in the South Korean press in the past 20 years, according to The Hankyoreh, a South Korean daily.
The NBC story appears to have been based on a new 46 page report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a hawkish Washington think tank. Like a similar CSIS report from last November, picked up by the New York Times, the latest reports foster a narrative that North Korea is hiding capabilities and not negotiating in good faith.
It is true that North Korea has not declared the bases but if the South Korea and the United States already know about them, the implication that North Korea is hiding something is a lot less meaningful.
