Aug 12, 2022 08:43 PM
https://gizmodo.com/north-korean-missile...1849402628
INTRO: Do you remember back in March when international analysts were equal parts terrified by the prospect of North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles and bemused by Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un’s self parody-level video promoting their military might? Well, evidence produced by experts on missile proliferation and satellite imagery confirmed earlier reports that the test was even sillier than first thought.
The announced launch of North Korea’s massive “monster missile” Hwasong-17 ICBM on March 24 caused quite a stir with the international community, with fears that it could travel even greater distances with more capacity for multiple warheads than the regime’s previous missiles. However, Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California, told the folks behind the Click Here podcast that there were some major holes in North Korea’s narrative.
Lewis, an arms control policy expert who heads his university’s East Asia Nonproliferation Program, said a wealth of evidence proves Kim Jong-un’s regime took video of a previous, failed launch of the Hwasong-17, then stapled over that failure with the launch of a previously successful, smaller missile. He and his team determined that pictures taken by satellite image provider Planet showed a March 16 image of the field used in the March 24 video with burn scars on the landscape, where March 24 satellite images didn’t have any evidence of a deformed landscape that should come from a missile launch.
The video also did not appear to show acceleration like the Hwasong-17 should be capable of. Researchers further said the video seemed to be compiled of two different launches. All this is to say that the monster missile likely “went kablooey” on an earlier test launch, according to Lewis... (MORE - missing details)
4 months ago ... https://youtu.be/jI2iECDXv_g
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jI2iECDXv_g
INTRO: Do you remember back in March when international analysts were equal parts terrified by the prospect of North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles and bemused by Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un’s self parody-level video promoting their military might? Well, evidence produced by experts on missile proliferation and satellite imagery confirmed earlier reports that the test was even sillier than first thought.
The announced launch of North Korea’s massive “monster missile” Hwasong-17 ICBM on March 24 caused quite a stir with the international community, with fears that it could travel even greater distances with more capacity for multiple warheads than the regime’s previous missiles. However, Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California, told the folks behind the Click Here podcast that there were some major holes in North Korea’s narrative.
Lewis, an arms control policy expert who heads his university’s East Asia Nonproliferation Program, said a wealth of evidence proves Kim Jong-un’s regime took video of a previous, failed launch of the Hwasong-17, then stapled over that failure with the launch of a previously successful, smaller missile. He and his team determined that pictures taken by satellite image provider Planet showed a March 16 image of the field used in the March 24 video with burn scars on the landscape, where March 24 satellite images didn’t have any evidence of a deformed landscape that should come from a missile launch.
The video also did not appear to show acceleration like the Hwasong-17 should be capable of. Researchers further said the video seemed to be compiled of two different launches. All this is to say that the monster missile likely “went kablooey” on an earlier test launch, according to Lewis... (MORE - missing details)
4 months ago ... https://youtu.be/jI2iECDXv_g