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AGA: Arbeitsgruppe Physik und Abrüstung

AGA 3: North Korea: Denuclearization

AGA 3.2: Invited Talk

Thursday, September 30, 2021, 14:15–15:00, H8

The DPRK's SLBMs and SRBMs - A Brief Update on North Korea's Missile Activities — •Markus Schiller — ST Analytics GmbH, München, Germany

After having successfully launched the Hwasong-15 road-mobile ICBM in November 2017, the Democratic People*s Republic of Korea (DPRK) apparently adhered to a self-imposed missile launch moratorium for almost 18 months. In May 2019, though, North Korea started to launch missiles again; about two dozen were fired over the summer months of 2019. However, contrary to 2017, these launches were limited to Short Range Ballistic Missiles (SRBMs) and a Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM), and relied on technologies that had nothing in common with the previous ICBM activities.

This presentation will give an update on the observed North Korean missile activities since 2018, including an attempt to distill some possible strategic motives for these activities.