Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover: North Korea’s HS-18 Is Not a Russian ICBM
An August 17 article by a prominent academic technical expert claimed that North Korea’s new solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM),…
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The Unintended Consequences of NATO’s Drift Toward Asia
As one might expect, the July 11-12 National Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) leaders summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, concentrated predominately on…
Second Consecutive Flight Test Success Brings North Korea’s Hwasong-18 ICBM Closer to Deployment
North Korea successfully conducted a second flight test of the Hwasong-18 (HS-18) solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on July 12.…
North Korea’s New HS-18 Makes a Solid but Incremental Contribution to the ICBM Force
North Korea launched its first solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the road-mobile “Hwasongpho-18” (Hwasong-18 or HS-18), on April 13. The…