Brig. Gen. Neil Tolley, head of all American special-operations forces in South Korea, said units of elite U.S. troops were conducting "special reconnaissance" missions in the North.
Elite troops have been dropped behind North Korean lines to pinpoint the specific locations of Pyongyang's vast network of underground military bases, Tolley said during a speech at a Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa, Fla., last Tuesday.
American commandos have identified hundreds of underground munitions facilities, along with thousands of subterranean artillery positions, linked by a complex network of underground tunnels that run up to the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea, Tolley said.
Until now, U.S. and Western intelligence had not been able to verify the existence of the tunnel network, since the complex had been hidden from spy satellites that continually survey the country.
"There were four tunnels under the [Demilitarized Zone]. Those are the ones we know about," Tolley said, according to reports in the Tampa Tribune.
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