I can’t tell whether to irritated at Yonhap, the ROK Ministry of Defense, or both. Read this: North Korea is believed to have detonated a nuclear device in 2009 inside a mountain tunnel elaborately designed with several traps to prevent…
Asahi has an interesting story sourced to someone in North Korea (北朝鮮関係筋). The Strategic Rocket Museum (!) in Pyongyang may have an Unha-3 rocket, like the one launched in December, labeled the “Hwaseong-13.” 【牧野愛博】北朝鮮が、人工衛星打ち上げ用のロケット「銀河３」と称して昨年１２月に発射した機体について、内部では長距離弾道ミサイル「火星１３」として説明していることがわかった。「平和目的」が対外向けの主張にすぎないことが裏付けられた。北朝鮮関係筋が明らかにした。 北朝鮮は昨年４月、平壌に開館した軍武装装備館に、「戦略ロケット館」と称する各種の弾道ミサイルを集めたドーム形の展示室を開設。中心部に、白地に「火星１３」の文字が描かれた機体の実物が据えてある。解説員は、機体の直径が２・４メートルで、天井が低いため最上段部を外してあり、残る長さが２６メートルと説明している。これが、昨年４月と１２月に発射した機体と同じものだという。 「火星１３」の周囲では、北朝鮮が１９８０年代から開発してきたスカッド型弾道ミサイル数発の実物や模型を展示。外国人の軍武装装備館への立ち入りは基本的に認められていない。 Interesting story, but I don’t…
Well, it’s still Wednesday in California — for a few more minutes. Here is the second installment in the Ward Wilson Wednesdays series. This week, Ward looks at the Cuban Missile Crisis.
North Korea’s announcement of an impending nuclear test refers to a “a nuclear test of higher level which will be carried out by it in the upcoming all-out action…” Most people seem to be focusing on the possibility of a…
Well, it’s late at night and my Scotch is empty. So I will make this quick. Here is an image (and .pdf) of the 1998 UK document on Agent 15 that I mentioned in my column for Foreign Policy (Buzz…
Yeah, I know it’s Thursday — GET OFF MY CASE. My colleague at the Monterey Institute, Ward Wilson, has a new book out entitled Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons. Ward and I disagree about some things, but I am always…
Less than a month ago, we were still getting acquainted with the salvaged chunks and bits of the Unha-3 first stage that South Korea’s Navy had hoisted from the watery deep. It seems that some people have been busy in…
Well, this is pretty cool. I keep pointing out that Russians love the internet — and place silly amounts on sensitive national security information online, whether it is a jack-knifed ICBM, a rifle factory under construction in Venezuela or ballistic missile…
They don’t look anything alike. Well, this is irritating. David Sanger and Thom Shanker have published a really interesting article that is irredeemably fouled up by their profound confusion about North Korean missiles. The lede of the article is that “North…
Patriot launch unit rearmed after making first “kill.” Battery A, 2d Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery, after becoming the first Patriot unit to successfully engage a SCUD missile, 18 January 1991, XVIII Airborne Corps History Office photograph by SPC Randall…
