SEOUL, Aug 19 — North Korea’s latest Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile — its first ICBM to use solid rocket fuel — has reignited debate over possible Russian...
SEOUL, Aug 19 — North Korea’s latest Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile — its first ICBM to use solid rocket fuel — has reignited debate over possible Russian links to the nuclear-armed state’s dramatic missile development.
It is the North’s first ICBM to use solid propellants, which can enable faster and easier deployment of missiles during war. The missile was first flown in April. Researchers at California’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in a draft report shared with Reuters, pointed to what they called factual inaccuracies, including mistaking the Russian Topol-M and Yars ICBMs, and misidentifying a spent Hwasong-18 rocket stage as a “decoy canister” designed to defeat anti-missile systems.
“In terms of this specific report... I don’t have anything to add to that today. I will say it’s something our intelligence community is taking a hard look at,” he said. “We do not rule out the possibility that Russian entities may have assisted North Korea in its development of this system,” they wrote.
Markus Schiller, a Europe-based missile expert who has long argued that North Korea’s success in testing suggests it has had external support, agreed the CSIS report “gets many issues blatantly wrong.”
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