North Korea's Thanksgiving Day test shows improving speed for missile crews by HeeShin joshjonsmith
SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed “great satisfaction” over the latest test of a large multiple-rocket launcher, state media said on Friday, a launch that experts said showcased improving performance by the system and its crews.
The latest test of the so-called KN-25 missile came as a Thanksgiving Day reminder to the United States of a year-end deadline Kim has set for Washington to show flexibility in their stalled denuclearization talks. “The faster it fires, the quicker it can out of dodge before counter-fire arrives,” Jeffrey Lewis, a missile researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies , said on Twitter.In the first two KN-25 tests in August and September missiles were fired 17 minutes and 19 minutes apart, respectively, the JCS said.
Photos released by KCNA showed missiles being fired from a transporter-erector-launcher equipped with four launcher tubes. “North Korea is trying to selectively modernize conventional forces in a low-cost, high-efficiency way to focus on the economy and reassure the military while nuclear talks are under way, and the rocket launcher is a product of that effort,” said Kim Dong-yub, a former South Korean Navy officer who teaches at Kyungnam University in Seoul.COUNTDOWN TO A DEADLINE
While undertaking negotiations with Washington, North Korea has demonstrated progress in conventional weapons development.
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