North Korea Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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I do wonder how many of these supposed fails are indeed fails.
I am aware that such tests only need to test a few, new, critical parts of a missile launch sequence and that once done, the flight and targeting parts are exactly the same as any other Ballistic Missile.
In other words, they do not need the missile to complete its flight once key operations have been successfully done and that by not completing, the flight is not in clear breach of the UN Ballistic Missile Ban.
I am aware that such tests only need to test a few, new, critical parts of a missile launch sequence and that once done, the flight and targeting parts are exactly the same as any other Ballistic Missile.
In other words, they do not need the missile to complete its flight once key operations have been successfully done and that by not completing, the flight is not in clear breach of the UN Ballistic Missile Ban.
plawolf
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I don't know, NK under chubs hardly has a reputation or track record for clever subtly, and instead seems to go out of its way to thumb its nose to the UN and world, and are even now flipping China the bird.
Unlike, say China, who likes to underplay its strengths, NK seems keen to make itself seem as capable and scary as possible. These missile launches are as much about making laud political statements as they are about developing the technology and building a credible sea based missile delivery option.
Indeed, I have commented more than once that for NK, putting its precious few nukes on its noisy, obsolete subs would be almost like offering them up on a plat with a pretty red bow on top to the navies of the US, SK and Japan, who all have assets that could easily track and destroy those NK subs pretty much at their leisure.
Even if the SLBM programme is a complete success, without a quantum leap in its sub fleet, NK would still not be able to deploy a survivable sea based nuclear deterrence.
The entire SLBM programme seems like a top-driven political vanity exercise rather than a rational merit based decision.
Based on that, I seriously doubt chubs would have the indignity and humiliation of failed missile launches in front of the world in mind when he ordered/sanctioned the test launch.
I do wonder how many NK scientists might end up lined up in front of anti aircraft artillery for this failure, and how far back that will set the entire programme back by.
SouthernSky
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Will only help South Korea justify THAAD.