North Korea appears to be actively carrying out farming operations at the Sunan Airport in Pyongyang amid a national seed-planting drive, casting doubt on several reports that such activity there is related to recent missile tests. 

On March 17, a day after the South Korean military said the North conducted a failed missile test from the “Sunan area,” 38 North asserted that dozens of trucks appearing on the airport’s northern runway were “likely … involved in post-test clean-up efforts, such as clearing contaminated brush from the infield.”

However, NK Pro analysis has found no evidence connecting the