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N.KOREA SATELLITE TECH ALSO USEFUL FOR MANEUVERABLE NUCLEAR WARHEADS
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Josh Smith
Publishing date:
Mar 11, 2022 • 4 days ago • 3 minute read • Join the conversation
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SEOUL — North Korea’s latest launches appear aimed at developing and testing
technology that can be used both for spy satellites and in a massive
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of launching multiple nuclear
warheads, analysts said.
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North Korea deployed a new ICBM system in Feb. 27 and March 5 test-firings, U.S.
and South Korean officials said on Friday, in what could be a prelude to the
nuclear-armed country’s first full ICBM test since 2017, potentially disguised
as a space launch.
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The giant, long-range missile system, known as the Hwasong-17, was first
unveiled at an October 2020 military parade in Pyongyang and reappeared at a
defense exhibition in October 2021, according to U.S. and South Korean
officials.
The large size of the Hwasong-17 suggests North Korea may be looking to tip it
with multiple nuclear warheads in “multiple independently-targetable reentry
vehicles” (MIRV), analysts said.
In such a system, the main rocket booster pushes a “bus” carrying multiple
reentry vehicles and sometimes decoys to confuse missile defense systems, into a
suborbital ballistic flight path.
The bus then uses small on-board rocket motors and a computerized inertial
guidance system to maneuver and release the warheads on different trajectories.
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State media reports on the recent satellite system tests mentioned attitude
control, which refers to small motors that help reorient an aerodynamic object,
Ankit Panda, a senior fellow at the U.S.-based Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace noted.
“It turns out that this would help them both develop and deploy new
reconnaissance satellites as well as a ‘bus’ for multiple warheads on an ICBM,”
he said.
In 2021, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said a multi-warhead rocket was in the
final stage of development.
Kim has also said putting multiple reconnaissance satellites in orbit is
important for the country’s security, as well as its national prestige, and has
suggested he could order new ICBM tests.
“North Korea wants to successfully place a satellite in orbit,” Michael
Duitsman, a researcher at the U.S.-based James Martin Center for
Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) said on Twitter. “I suspect that, even more than
that, they want to put more warheads on their missiles, to maximize their
limited number of TELs,” he added, referring to the Transporter Erector Launcher
(TEL) vehicles used to fire road-mobile missiles like the Hwasong-17.
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North Korea was unusually secretive about the launches, saying they tested
various components to be used in a developmental reconnaissance satellite but
releasing no details or photos of the rockets involved.
Unlike North Korea’s usual space rockets, which were launched from static pads
at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground, the recent missiles were fired from
near Sunan, where Pyongyang’s international airport is located, suggesting the
missiles were fired from a TEL.
North Korea’s space program has always been controversial because of its ties to
military missile development.
“North Korea used early rockets like the Taepodong and Unha/Kwangmyongsong
series to test their theories and later develop the ICBMs known as Hwasong-14
and Hwasong-15,” said Melissa Hanham, a researcher at Stanford University’s
Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) in California. “This
is type of development is pretty standard for all countries with ICBMs.”
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North Korea’s last formal ICBM test was the Hwasong-15, which reached an
altitude of around 4,475 km (2,780 miles) and traveled 950 km (590 miles) during
a single launch in Nov. 2017, giving it an estimate range to strike anywhere in
the continental United States.
In contrast, the latest test that reportedly involved the new Hwasong-17 system
reached a height of 550 km (340 miles) and flew 300 km (190 miles), according to
South Korea.
Analysts said the tests may have only used only one stage of the liquid-fueled
Hwasong-17.
Any use of ballistic missile technology by North Korea, even in a space launch
vehicle, is fully banned by United Nations Security Council resolutions, a
senior U.S. official told reporters in Washington, speaking on condition of
anonymity. (Reporting by Josh Smith; Additional reporting by David Brunnstrom in
Washington; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)
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