Kim's tour of the allegedly repurposed factory comes as North Korea continues its missile tests and distancing from the South.
A facility holding rows of mobile missile launchers inspected by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday was once an automobile factory, a security analyst said.'The 'national defense enterprise' where Kim Jong Un viewed updated 240-millimeter multiple rocket launchers' is the former Pyeonghwa Motors factory,' Jeffrey Lewis, director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies' East Asia Nonproliferation Program, wrote Tuesday on X, formerly Twitter.
North Korea-focused analyst group NK Pro corroborated Lewis's claim in a separate report: 'This facility, once a symbol of inter-Korean cooperation, was used to produce cars but has since been repurposed to enhance North Korea's military capabilities, particularly in producing multiple rocket launchers, a key element in the nation's arsenal.
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