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title: "Sino-ri Missile Operating Base: North Korea Strategic Site Dossier | Save North Korea"
description: "Sino-ri Missile Operating Base (Missile & space): Located 212 kilometers north of the DMZ, Sino-ri is an operational missile base that houses a regiment-sized unit equipped with Nodong-1/-2 medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBM). It is one of the oldest of approximately 20 undeclared missile operating bases and is reported to serve as the headquarters of the Strategic Rocket Forces Nodong missile brigade. It may have also played a role in development of the newest generation Pukkuksong-2 (KN-15) ballistic missile first tested or unveiled by North Korea on February 12, 2017."
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 Missile & space 

# Sino-ri Missile Operating Base

Located 212 kilometers north of the DMZ, Sino-ri is an operational missile base that houses a regiment-sized unit equipped with Nodong-1/-2 medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBM). It is one of the oldest of approximately 20 undeclared missile operating bases and is reported to serve as the headquarters of the Strategic Rocket Forces Nodong missile brigade. It may have also played a role in development of the newest generation Pukkuksong-2 (KN-15) ballistic missile first tested or unveiled by North Korea on February 12, 2017.

**Active** status CSIS Beyond Parallel 

**Unjon** North Pyongan province 

**2019** CSIS report 

Unjon · North Pyongan

Sino-ri Missile Operating Base · 39.6449°N, 125.3553°E [Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/@39.644929,125.355288,15z/data=!3m1!1e3) · Imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics 

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## Source

- [**CSIS Beyond Parallel** beyondparallel.csis.org ↗ ](https://beyondparallel.csis.org/undeclared-north-korea-the-sino-ri-missile-operating-base-and-strategic-force-facilities/)

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