According to a South Korean military official, North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) last week, billed as its most powerful yet, might be a less advanced weapon than previously thought.
According to the person, who spoke on the requested anonymity, the March 24 launching of what North Korea said was a new Hwasong-17 ICBM was actually the older and somewhat lighter Hwasong-15 – an ICBM Pyongyang previously tested in 2017.
Numerous missile specialists have since come to the same conclusion, but those who caution that the importance of last week's effective ICBM launch – North Korea's first in much more than four years – must not be overlooked, pointing out that the test still evidenced a weapon capable of hitting the entire continental United States theoretically.
According to Japan's Defense Ministry, the ICBM fired by North Korea last Thursday traveled to an elevation of 6,000 kilometers (3,728 miles) and a range of 1,080 kilometers (671 miles) with a flight period of 71 minutes before crashing down in waters off the western coast of Japan.
North Korea has always overestimated their own ability in terms of military strength, but they have always been a threat to the world given their dictators irrationality. Who knows if these tests were correlated to supporting Russia or not
ReplyDeleteI am curious to see how other countries will respond to this. Some will turn a blind eye to it, but I wonder if any will give North Korea a warning.
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