Meanwhile, *inside North Korea,… the regime seems to have destroyed a missile test stand,… in line with Kim Jong-un's promise to suspend missile testing.
Citing satellite imagery,... U.S.-based North Korea monitoring website 38 North says,.... the demolishing process of the facility near the northwestern city of Kusong .... seems to have started in the second week of May,… and was almost complete a week later.
The stand was the only known facility for land-based,… canister-launched ballistic missile ejection tests,.... deemed critical for developing a medium-range solid-fuel ballistic missile.
Solid-fuel missiles can be fired at shorter notice and more discreetly than those powered by liquid fuel.
