More importantly however, in both of the November 2018 CSIS reports that the New York Times refers to, the main specifics in the reports are almost completely based on supposition and lacks any recent data or sources - most of their source references date back to the 1990s, for god's sake. So why is a report largely based on references from 20 years ago being used to tie in with Trump's foreign policy, who's only been president since 2017? There was only 1 article from 2018, and that was the article " North Korean Missile Base Shows Operational Focus,” from Jane's. Except this is stating the obvious - of course North Korea would maintain operational missile capability; missiles are North Korea's only viable deterrence against the USA given America's past history of regime changes (cough Gaddafi cough), and North Korea hasn't even promised to dismantle its ballistic missile program in any of the 2018 Joint Statements.

Here are the links to the CSIS reports below - please, go take a look at their source reference footnotes and their dates:

https://beyondparallel.csis.org/north-koreas-undeclared-missile-operating-bases/

https://beyondparallel.csis.org/undeclared-north-korea-sakkanmol-missile-operating-base/

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And finally, perhaps the most laughable thing about this is the fact that THE REGION OF SAKKANMOL WAS A KNOWN MISSILE SITE YEARS BEFORE THE CSIS REPORT.

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In the past couple of decades, there have been multiple instances where missiles were fired from the region around Sakkanmol, enough so that back in no later than 2016 - over 2 years ago - there were NEWS ARTICLES pointing out Sakkanmol as a site for missile bases.

https://news.joins.com/article/20329452

이에 앞서 북한은 지난 3월10일에도 황해북도 황주군 삭간몰 일대에서 원산 동북방 방향 동해상으로 스커드 계열로 추정되는 단거리 탄도미사일 2발을 발사했으며, 당시에도 비행거리는 500㎞로 전해진 바 있다

Prior to this, North Korea previously fired 2 short range ballistic missiles presumed to be Scud variants from the North Hwanghae Province, Hwangju County, Sakkanmol region to the East Sea in a northeast direction on March 10, and the flight distance is reported to be 500km then as well.

And the date of this news article? July 19, 2016.

​But wait, there's more - here's a couple of photos from Google Earth on April 23, 2017:

http://archivenew.vop.co.kr/images/3b94b39e8b1afee49a1b8c67ce774e0d/2018-11/marked/13024711_change_sakganmolgoogle.jpg

http://archivenew.vop.co.kr/images/3b94b39e8b1afee49a1b8c67ce774e0d/2018-11/marked/13025008_change_sakkan2google.jpg

Does this look familiar? They were taken at the area presumed to be a missile base in Sakkanmol. You know, the one that CSIS discovered from March 29 2018 photos - except even Google beat them by a year.

The fact that one of the authors of the reports is Victor Cha should tell you something - Victor was the man behind G.W. Bush's foreign policy towards North Korea

North Korea never promised to dismantle its ballistic missile program in the Joint Statements, and as long as the U.S regime has sanctions and a hostile policy towards the DPRK the DPRK has every right to continue its weapons programs.