Secret military base near China expands nuclear threat

THE country has quietly built and operated a sprawling long-range missile base near the Chinese border that stores Kim Jong-un’s most advanced strategic weapons, demonstrating the regime’s ongoing efforts to advance its nuclear strike capabilities, a think tank said.

The base in Sinpung, North Pyongan province, located 27km from the border with China, likely houses a brigade-sized unit equipped with six to nine nuclear-­capable intercontinental ballistic missiles and their mobile launchers, a report by the Centre for Strategic and International Stu­dies showed on Wednesday.