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April 17, 2017
This past weekend, North Korea conducted a major military parade, an annual affair to commemorate the birth of Kim Il-sung. The event included the conspicuous display of many missiles and artillery pieces, which together demonstrate the nation’s firm intent to develop new and longer-range capabilities, as well as its overall reliance upon such military forces....
March 22, 2017
The U.S. and South Korean militaries report that a North Korean missile fired Wednesday morning near Wonson Air Base exploded seconds after launch. Neither United States Pacific Command nor the South Korean Defense Ministry have given indication about what type of missile was launched. The Wonson launch location suggests that the missile was likely a Musudan,...
February 2, 2017
A recent statement by a U.S. official to reporters suggests that Iran’s Khorramshahr missile, which Iran tested on January 29, may have been a variant of North Korea’s Musudan medium-range ballistic missile. The official suggested in an interview with Reuters that Sunday’s test was the first time the missile had been tested since July 2016....
November 2, 2016
U.S. officials report North Korea is preparing for another test launch of its BM-25 Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile for some time in the next three days. This test would come only a few days before the U.S. presidential election on November 8. With between a 2,500 and a 4,000 kilometer range, a fully operational Musudan...
October 25, 2016
Last week, North Korea conducted what was likely to be the seventh and eight attempted launches of the Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile. United States Strategic Command detected both launches and assessed both tests to be failures, making for seven such failures of the missile this year. The only successful test of the Musudan, which happened on June 22,...