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Pyongyang Building Intermediate-Range Missiles, Testing Long-Range Missile Engines, South Korea Says
North Korea is working to develop an arsenal of intermediate-range ballistic missiles and has been conducting tests of an engine for a long-range ballistic missile, the South Korean Defense Ministry said yesterday (see GSN, July 2). The ministry detailed North Korea’s military capabilities in a report to the South Korean National Assembly’s Defense Committee, according to the Korea Herald. In the report, the ministry said that North Korea possesses a missile arsenal of up to 600 Scud missiles, with a range of up to 500 kilometers, along with 100 Rodong 1 missiles, which have a range of about 1,300 kilometers (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News , July 7). The ministry also said that North Korea was building and deploying an intermediate-range missile, but did not say how many or where they may be based, the Korea Herald reported. North Korea has also been conducting tests of engines for the Taepodong 2 ICBM, which has a range of 6,000 kilometers, according to the ministry. Engine tests are seen as the last step before actual flight-testing of a missile, the Korea Herald reported (see GSN, June 10). The ministry also said in its report that North Korea had constructed about 80 underground missile bases since the U.S. invasion of Iraq last March (Korea Herald, July 7).
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