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SEOUL (THE KOREA HERALD / ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The intelligence services of South Korea and the United States have detected North Korea moving an ICBM, along with four mobile launchers, at a factory on the outskirts of Pyongyang a Seoul official told a local media outlet. on Saturday (October 3).
“The missile is larger than the one they fired in 2017 and we believe they would display it in a military parade on October 10,” the official said.
North Korea launched its first ICBM, Hwasong-15, in 2017 and appears to be putting on a show of force on the anniversary of the founding of its ruling party.
Speculation continues to proliferate about North Korea’s unveiling of a more advanced ICBM, or ICBM, with some experts expressing reservations, as the isolated country could not have assembled newer technologies without outside help under United Nations sanctions.
The Seoul official added that Pyongyang could unveil a new submarine-launched ballistic missile as well as an upgraded submarine, pointing to intelligence that detected signs of the activity involving the latest development at the North Sinpo South Shipyard along the east coast.
Meanwhile, 38 North, a website that monitors North Korea, said on Friday that the North’s short-range ballistic missiles remain vulnerable to interception by the South’s anti-missile systems.
“North Korea’s KN-23 and KN-24 missiles are no better at evading detection by long-range radars than their Scud-type counterparts,” Michael Elleman, director of non-proliferation at the International Institute of Proliferation, wrote on the website. Strategic Studies. .
He was referring to Pyongyang’s short-range ballistic missiles that were intercepted by and Seoul’s anti-missile shield layered with the Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) systems.
Seoul maintains a missile defense network where the Patriot detects missiles flying at low altitudes and the Thaad shoots them down at high altitudes. The Thaad has much longer-range radars than the Patriot to track missiles.
Short-range missiles, flying at low altitudes, are launched outside of the range that the Patriot identifies incoming fire, but the Thaad can instruct the Patriot to explore where the threat is suspected to appear in the sky to thwart hostile fire, according to Mr. Elleman.
But those missiles can maneuver their entire trajectory, which could affect the interception process, he added.
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