14 Apr 2023

“This is a significant breakthrough for the North Koreans, but not an unexpected one. Because these missiles are fuelled at the time of manufacture and are thus ready to use as needed, they will be much more rapidly useable in a crisis or conflict, depriving South Korea and the United States of valuable time that could be useful to preemptively hunt and destroy such missiles.”

www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/14/north...
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Ankit Panda

   Researcher, Analyst

Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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North Korea launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

North Korea missile program

North Korea successful test of its first solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile