The slow-but-steady trickle of post-June 12 summit leaks continues out of the U.S. intelligence community. On Monday, the Washington Post, citing multiple U.S. intelligence community sources, made public a new assessment that North Korea is moving forward with the production of at least one—and possibly as many as two—Hwasong-15 intercontinental-range ballistic missiles (ICBMs) at the Sanum-dong Research Center, on the outskirts of Pyongyang.

For analysts following North Korea’s ballistic missile program, the assessment comes as no great shock. The converse—that North Korea had made a political decision to cease ballistic missile production