Kim Jong Un Making Rocket Launchers in Old Car Factory, Analyst Says

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. Pyeonghwa Motors, founded in 1998 as a joint venture between North Korea and a firm affiliated with South Korea’s Unification Church religious movement, is one of two car manufacturers in the reclusive…