North Korea Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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9M330 and 9M331 missiles for Tor are 235mm diameter thus probably North Korea for their analogue has missiles at 240mm.
SInce they produce rockets for 240mm MRLS thus might as well use same tooling to produce rocket motor for Tor analogue/clone.
SInce they produce rockets for 240mm MRLS thus might as well use same tooling to produce rocket motor for Tor analogue/clone.
Why doesn't China sell aircraft to NK?
Because there is a UN weapons embargo.
Officially the UN doesn't allow it. Non officially it doesn't make sense to invest heavily in their airforce when they can't support a full network centric air warfare system.
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Wow, that look likes a big ship 
They can, DPRK is poor (function of it being completely cut off from most of world economy), but it's an industrial state with working education system in full sense.
They're quite aware of what's going on around, and follow up.
Sad truth is that from early-mid 2010s attitude towards Pyongyang was simply dismissive in Beijing(not unlike Moscow in 1990s, though nowhere that bad of course), and given that any Korean state by default is going to be anxious about China (like, 2.5k years of history together) - it added up.
Of course China will come help DPRK if South/US will forget it's place, but Kim's never exactly wanted to become just an obedient buffer state.
That was one of reasons for Russian affair from DPRK side - it's a very political thing.
It's not an education issue.
To get NK to air/air defense parity with SK/Japan, you're looking at investments at the very least expensive still likely on par with what US pumps into Israel. 100s of decent fighters, low number of squadrons of 5th gen, round the clock ISR/refueling support whenever they want to do something, not to mention a huge amount of air defenses + hardened hangars, because the point of Korea being easily destroyed by strikes to both ways.
This won't be a trivial cost, both in money and political commitment.
And then the question is what having a very militarily boosted NK but still with a poorly run civilian economy will do for China than just giving nearly all the advanced equipment to the PLA wouldn't.