MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The existence of more than a dozen supposedly secret North Korean missile bases should come as a surprise to nobody — certainly not the United States or South Korea. Both have access to military intelligence that far exceeds what is available in the private sector. If anything, the latest findings of a Washington think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), only underscore the vast, messy complexities of stalled denuclearization talks, and raise further questions about the true impact of the historic June 12 summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The CSIS report used satellite imagery to locate the site of ‘undeclared’ North Korean missile bases, notably Sakkanmol, an operational missile base equipped with short-range ballistic missiles that could ‘easily accommodate’ medium-range ballistic warheads…The Blue House said Tuesday [11-13-18] the existence of the missile sites was ‘nothing new’ and rejected the use of the word ‘deception’ by the Times and similar framing of the story by other news outlets, including CNN, citing a risk of undermining sensitive talks.”
–Will Ripley, “When it comes to North Korea, who’s really being deceptive?,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, November 13, 2018 10:08 pm