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North Korea’s missiles
New missiles, tests and parades, and how the team works out what North Korea actually has.
ICBMs 12
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FINALLY. North Korea’s Solid ICBM: The Hwasong-18
FINALLY. After almost a decade of hinting and teasing and parading fake empty canisters, North Korea has debuted its long-awated solid propellant…
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How Sting Likes to Test
Jeeze that was a big missile. North Korea has tested another large ICBM, and this one was (another) doozy. Jeffrey and Aaron…
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The Janky Triad
Does North Korea have a triad? Perhaps a boostrapped, janky triad? How mature is their arsenal at this point? North Korea lobbed…
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Test Three Missiles…
…get a pod. North Korea has conducted three (and, as I’m typing this, apparently four), ICBM (or ICBM element) tests, with two labelled…
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North Korea’s Biggest ICBM Yet
Jeffrey and crew have been busy at work modelling the giant ICBM that the DPRK paraded in October 2020, as well as…
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North Korea’s Mysterious Engine Test
Sohae is open for business! The ACW Gang talks North Korea’s recent engine test at Sohae and marvels (again) at the power…
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North Korea’s Big Frickin’ Missile
North Korea tested a new ICBM called the Hwasong-15. We’ll keep these show notes brief. Its frickin’ huge. Aaron, Jeffrey, and Scott discuss…
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Hot Launch Hot Take
The DPRK just launched a looooong range missile. According to podfriend Ankit Panda, it went farther, higher, and farther than the July 4th…
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North Korea’s New Missiles
No one has better sources in the U.S. government when it comes to North Korea’s missile program than the Diplomat’s Ankit Panda. …
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North Korea’s ICBM: Hwasong-14
Test a missile, get a pod. North Korea tested a missile. The big one. An ICBM. To discuss recent events, Aaron,…
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The Hwasong-12, finally
North Korea has finally tested (successfully) a new missile — and boy it is a doozy. After the April 15 parade, we called…
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Dudes from the SHIG II: Electric Boogaloo
Jeffrey and Aaron discuss North Korea’s test of new rocket engine.
Submarine-launched missiles 8
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North Korea’s Small SLBM
North Korea seems to be taking its new, small, solid propellant missiles to the sea, after taking them to the show. Perennial…
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North Korea’s New SLBM: The Pukguksong-3
It is finally here! Two years after seeing posters for the Pukguksong-3 during Kim Jong Un’s visit to the Chemical Material Institute of…
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North Korea’s Missile Submarine(s) A series in three parts
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North Korea’s Missile Submarine(s): Part 1
In addition to a new ICBM and thermonuclear weapon, North Korea is also developing new class of solid-fueled missiles. Joseph Dempsey…
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North Korea’s Missile Submarine(s): Part 2
In addition to a new ICBM and thermonuclear weapon, North Korea is also developing new class of solid-fueled missiles. Joseph Dempsey from…
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North Korea’s Missile Submarine(s): Part 3
The final part in our three part series! Episode 1 can be found here. Episode 2 is here. This addendum episode includes…
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KN-11 Ashore
North Korea tested the Pukguksong-2, a medium-range solid-fueled ballistic missile. Jeffrey says “I told you so,” Scott wonks out about the missile’s…
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North Korea’s KN-11 Goes Kablooie
North Korea tested a submarine launched ballistic missile called the KN-11. The North Koreans released footage of the test that showed the…
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North Korea’s Submarine Launched Missile
In May, North Korea released pictures of the Kim Jong Un watching the launch of what appears to be a submarine-launched ballistic…
Short-range, cruise and hypersonic 11
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Russia Buys North Korean Missiles
Shoigu went shopping. Russia is buying KN-23 and KN-25 missiles from North Korea and launching them in support of its invasion of…
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The Lake-Bed Missile
Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get a pod Launch a missile get…
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North Korea’s MaRV
North Korea tested what appears to be a maneuverable reentry vehicle (MaRV), which could support a tactical nuclear mission and subvert ballistic…
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Glide or Die
Glide or die, baby. The North Koreans, on a real cavalcade of missile debuts reminiscent of 2017, have tested what they claim…
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All Aboard the Missile Train
Put another pot of coffee on because it is launch week again. North Korean launched two missiles off of the back of…
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Not Lackin’ LACMs
The DPRK tested a cruise missile, but this time it was a big one. Like “INF Treaty” big, if that term still…
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A Tale of Two Launches
North Korea has been active the past few weeks, launching a set of cruise missiles (probably just coastal defense systems) and a…
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North Korea’s New Short-Range Missile
Launch a missile, get a podcast. North Korea launched a short-range missile over the weekend and a Planet satellite was there to…
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North Korean Missile Operations
North Korea launched 4 extended range Scuds in March. They weren’t the long-awaited ICBM, but they are a big deal in their…
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Double Dragon: Open Source and North Korean Missile Launches
Why did North Korea just test two Scud missiles? Was North Korea responding to the US-South Korean military exercise? Does the pairing…
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The Cruise Missile Conundrum
Are cruise missiles proliferating? Are the North Koreans in the cruise missile business? How has open source helped analysts track cruise missile…
Nuclear tests and warheads 9
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Rules for Testing a Nuke
Why isn’t North Korea testing nukes? What are the signals and signs that precede a test? Jeffrey and Aaron talk testing indicators,…
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Waiting for the Boom
After a brief hiatus due to Jeffrey’s house catching on a lil’ bit of fire, the Arms Control Wonk team is back…
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North Korea’s Next Nukes
North Korea put on *another* parade, during the 8th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea. Kim Jong Un dropped some fascinating…
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KCN-eh? May’s other North Korea Developments
A Canadian reviews the last month’s news with a special guest. Andrea talks to Hamish Macdonald from NK News about what went boom at…
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North Korea Tests an H-bomb
Jeffrey was lounging at the beach with his phone off. You know what the means: NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST TIME! North Korea…
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Another North Korean Nuclear Test
North Korea conducted yet another nuclear test. On a school night. New podcast.
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Kim Jong Un’s Bomb
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un visited a missile factory and posed with a nuclear weapon promoting the obvious question: Which one is Fat Man…
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North Korea Tested an H-Bomb?
North Korea tested a nuclear weapon, claiming it was an H-bomb. Was it? Aaron Stein returns to talk with Jeffrey about North…
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Will North Korea Test a Nuclear Weapon?
Is North Korea about to test (another) nuclear weapon? Or perhaps more than one? Jeffrey Lewis and Aaron Stein discuss the possibilities.
Parades 3
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Another North Korean Missile Parade
Jeffrey, Aaron, and Scott say the unthinkable: we’re a little tired of the parades. But we’re glad the youthes are still ordering…
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The 2020 North Korean Military Parade
On 10/10/2020, the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Worker’s Party of Korea, the DPRK showed of a lot of missiles. Again.…
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North Korean Missile Parade: JucheFest 2017
Where were you, April 15th? Because we were in front of our computers ironically tweeting about what new missiles North Korea would…
Sites and factories 8
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Kim Jong Un’s Excellent Adventure
Sam Lair joins the podcast to talk about Kim Jong Un’s recent whirlwind tour of the North Korean Defense Industrial Base with…
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Boiling Fish at Yongbyon
Looks like Yongbyon is running a little hot. The IAEA has announced that it believes the DPRK is conducting a plutonium reprocessing…
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The Wollo-Ri Suspected Nuclear Warhead Manufacturing Facility
Another day, another suspected nuclear facility in North Korea. Anne and Jeffrey discuss the Wollo-ri Suspected Nuclear Warhead Manufacturing Facility. They discuss…
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North Korea’s Expanding Missile Base
The CNS OSINT team did it again. While doing what one does on the weekend, looking at DPRK missile bases, Jeffrey and…
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KCN-eh? July’s other North Korea Developments
It’s a family pod today! Andrea, Aaron, and Jeffrey review July’s new North Korean developments. They dive into the developments at Sohae…
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North Korea’s Continuing Missile Production
Ellen Nakashima and Joby Warrick have a bombshell story about North Korea producing one, possible two, Hwasong-15 ICBMs at its Sanumdong facility. …
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North Korea’s New Old Enrichment Site: Kangson
KANGSON. We have the (probable) location of North Korea’s original enrichment site: Kangson, now called Chollima. This is probably the spot where…
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Keeping up with the Kims
Iran has been dominating the news, but the North Koreans have been busy too. Whether it is missile testing, nuclear activities at…
Satellite launches 3
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North Korea’s New Satellite
North Korea finally got a reconnaissance satellite into orbit, after several failed prior attempts! While it is a little rough around the…
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Failure to Launch
Jeffrey is back from Japan and North Korea’s satellite-turned-submarine is back from the bottom of the ocean! North Korea’s failed Chollima-1 space launcher…
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The North Korean Missile Threat and Alliance Reassurance
The DPRK launched a small satellite using its latest SLV, the Kwangmyŏngsŏng. In response, the United States and its regional allies deployed…
Missile defense 3
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Gimme Shelter
After North Korea tested its new MaRV twice, a bunch of weird news stories suddenly started breaking about U.S. responses. Flights were…
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MDA Shoots Down an ICBM Target
The US conducted a successful test, FTG-15, of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system designed to protect the United States against a…
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Shooting Down (Dumb Ideas About) North Korea’s ICBM
Jeffrey and Aaron discuss a number of inaccuracies in the public debate over North Korea’s long-range missiles and U.S. missile defenses, while…