North Korea's record year of missile launches has shown its willingness to pour resources into producing and deploying more weapons than ever - and sanctions have done little to hinder their development, analysts say
Last week the country fired more than 80 missiles, including its latest short-range ballistic missiles and a new variant of intercontinental ballistic missile , by far the North's most launches in such a short period.
North Korea must have either sufficient stocks of fuel and missiles, including complex machinery such as engines and guidance systems, the ability to produce new weapons quickly, or the ability to acquire what it needs from abroad, said Mason Richey of Seoul’s Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. “The fireworks indicate that they have those missiles in numbers in stock,” said Markus Schiller, a Europe-based missile expert.
When South Korea gathered remnants of North Korean Unha space launch rockets in 2012, it said it found components from Britain, Switzerland, the United States, China, and the former Soviet Union.
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