New ICBM with North Korean Fever … Experts Pay Attention to ‘Datandu’

Experts are paying attention to ‘Datandu’ for the new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that North Korea unveiled at the Labor party’s 75th anniversary ceremony on the 10th.

According to the Voice of the United States (VOA) on the 11th (local time), Jeffrey Lewis Middlebury, director of the East Asia Non-Proliferation Center, said in a telephone interview with the media about the ICBM, “It depends on the size real, but the ability to mount multiple nuclear warheads “Show”.

The missile recently unveiled by North Korea is estimated to be longer than the ‘Hwaseong-15 type (9 axles, 18 wheels)’ ICBM launched in November 2017 and has a larger diameter. Experts believe that the length is 2 to 3 m longer than that of the Hwaseong-15 type, which is about 21 m in length, and the diameter is also greater than 2 m of the Hwaseong-15 type, and the weight has increased.

“The Hwaseong-15 engine actually has one (fuel supply) pump, but it has two combustion chambers,” Lewis explained. “If we hit two combustion chambers with one engine, the new missile would have two or three (such engines),” he said. “So the first stage rocket is about two or three times stronger (than before).” All the new larger ICBMs have notes that if a warhead can be installed, it can be used to subdue America’s missile defense systems in Alaska. He said: “The idea of ​​mounting multiple warheads is what North Korea said (a new strategic weapon),” he said. “It is an effective way to defeat America’s missile defense system.” A lot of people talk about MIRV (separate independent target reentry nuclear warhead), “he said.” This is what they aspire to have, but (actually) it’s pretty hard to have. “

Vice Principal Williams said, “There are guys that fly the same path when they launch and fall to roughly the same target, or there are guys with enhanced MIRV. The MIRV-enhanced guy still has a long way to go in terms of North Korean capabilities. Is far.”