Dear MEL Topic Readers,
What we know about North Korea's new ICBM
From North Korea’s view, it was attached by the United States of America during the Korean War between 1950 and 1953. Though it was North Korea that initiated the war, it was nearly defeated by South Korea and the US-led UN forces. Several hundreds of thousands of soldiers and over a million civilians lost their lives in North Korea alone. If China hadn’t intervened, the North Korean regime wouldn’t have survived. Though the war is considered to have ended in 1953, there is no peace treaty between the two Koreas. In order to deter US aggression, North Korea has been conducting over 150 strategic missile tests since 1984, most of which were under the incumbent leader, Kim Jong-un. Recently, it test-fired a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which reached over 6,000 kilometers high and flew a distance of over 1,000 kilometers for 68 minutes. If the missile was targeted, it could have reached any place on the US mainland. Though it is still uncertain if the tested missile can carry a nuclear warhead, Kim Jong Un seems to believe that his country is getting closer to preventing an adversary from the US.
North Korea is the poorest country that has ballistic missiles. Its GDP per capita is ranked 178th in the world and most people are poor and hungry. What should be protected first in the country?
Read the article and learn about North Korea’s ICBM test.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/25/asia/north-korea-new-icbm-test-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html
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