North Korea says it tested solid-fuel missile tipped with hypersonic weapon

Important to understand, NK's becoming global proxy war arm's supplier, especially missiles and munitions to Russia, Iran & their many Muslim proxies to fuel conflict & chaos.

Russia and China are providing NK the missile tech know how, many experts believe China's actually providing NK missiles, only to be 're-labeled' as NK for 'export'.

Above, natural response to US NATO Ukraine Proxy War

Goal of Russia, China is Not territorial, but rather economic and political damage to the West. It's Working.

natural response to US NATO Ukraine Proxy War

There is no "proxy war" in Ukraine. There is only the Russian invasion to expand its territory and gain new resources that belong to Ukraine.

Goal of Russia, China is Not territorial, but rather economic and political damage to the West. It's Working.

Goal of Russia, China IS territorial, economic and political damage to Russia is huge and long lasting.

@HopeSpringsEternal

many experts believe China's actually providing NK missiles, only to be 're-labeled' as NK for 'export'.

Absolutely not. All North Korean missiles exported are North Korean in origin.

Anyhow, Japan's existing and planned near-term missile defense systems, particularly Aegis Ashore, cannot stop this North Korean hypersonic glider, since Aegis Ashore's minimum interception altitude is 120 km while this hypersonic glider flew below 50 km altitude for the entire duration of flight.

With all the reliability and accuracy for which DORK missiles and ammo are known for world-wide.

How many could have been fed with THAT money?

I wonder what it cost to produce this latest anchor in the Sea of Japan ?

Haha

Russia & China busy sending message to Japan & South Korea with their transfer of missile tech to NK, something to the effect...

"You'll never achieve security from NK, consider different path than doubling down with war monger Uncle Sam."

I hope they're foolish enough to go ahead. I'm all for getting this obscene stupidity over with since all the autocratic regimes feel they'll somehow win anything once we make the planet unpleasantly unhospitable for human life. Like taking off a very painful band-aid, pull it off quick. So they can all think about if it was worth it when they're dead. Win nothing, lose EVERYTHING.

many experts believe China's actually providing NK missiles, only to be 're-labeled' as NK for 'export'.

Absolutely not. All North Korean missiles exported are North Korean in origin.

I'm glad you believe so, but satellites tell a different story, as do the intel communities. NK's being massively enabled by Russia and China, especially missile tech.

It's been covered here in JT, the arms trade boom between Russia and NK. China's covering their tracks a bit better to maintain a good 'appearance'.

Amazing isn't it how NK has suddenly SINCE, US Ukraine proxy war, has gained ICBM, Submarine cruise missile and satellite launch capabilities...accident? Hardly.

In fact, NK's becoming major weapons supplier, especially missiles. The proxy wars are spreading, nonstate actors like Houthis are clearly ready to fight.

Yeah, their claim for this launch lost nearly all credibility, when the pictures released by state-run media, had - at the bottom of the recording - a caption, identifying it as: Missile Takeoff from Spectre HQ, Act One, Sequence Two, working title, ‘James Bond Meets Ernst Stavro Blofeld alive and living in North Korea.’

At least the state-run-parrot-cage chose to delete the evil chuckle voice-over, "Mwahahaha."

Kind of cheesy special effects, if you ask me. Wonder if it will go straight to streaming?