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North Korea announced that the ICBM launched yesterday (24th) is a Hwasong 17.

The Hwasong 17 has improved both altitude and range compared to four years ago.

In addition, although we need to analyze a little more, it seems that we have secured the technology to carry multiple warheads at once, and it is evaluated that it can strike major US cities such as New York and Washington at the same time, and it is virtually impossible to intercept.  



Defense reporter Kim Tae-hoon will explain in detail.



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October 10, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Labor Party.



The missile, with an estimated projectile length of 22 to 24 meters, was mounted on a mobile launch vehicle with 11 wheel axles.



The Hwasong 17 has two wheel axles compared to the existing ICBM-class missile Hwasong 15, which had nine wheel axles.



Compared to the American Minuteman and China's new Dongfeng, the projectile length and diameter were larger, so it was called the so-called monster ICBM.



To increase the power to launch missiles, two twin engines of Mt. Baekdu, which use liquid fuel, were bundled and used as a first-stage engine.



With the same warhead weight, it is estimated that it can fly farther than the Hwasong Type 15, which flies 13,000 kilometers.



It is also characterized by the fact that the front part of the missile has the shape of a multiple warhead missile that can carry two or three conventional warheads or nuclear warheads.



You can fire multiple warheads at the same time with one missile to attack different locations, or mix real and fake warheads in a nuclear attack, making it difficult to intercept.



However, it has not been confirmed whether they have even secured the technology of an aircraft system that disperses and scatters warheads.



[Jang Young-geun/Professor at Korea Aviation University: Multiple warheads fall right away when fired at a high angle, so how do you spray (warheads) here and there?

It doesn't have that function.

In order to verify multiple warheads, it must be fired with a normal trajectory.]



Also, since it is a high-angle launch, it is also necessary to verify that the warhead enters the atmosphere and reaches the target point during normal-angle launch and that the re-entry and guidance technology is secured.