North Korea May Be Ready to Show Long-Range Missile

The South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported today that North Korea has developed a new long-range ballistic missile, according to the Associated Press (see GSN, Aug. 6).

The new missile, which has not yet been deployed, has a range of 1,850 miles to 2,470 miles, the newspaper quoted a South Korean official as saying.  If correct, the missile would be more powerful than North Korea’s Taepodong 1 missile, AP reported (Soo-jeong Lee, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Sept. 8).

Defense analysts have said that North Korea is trying to develop a more-advanced version of the Taepodong, according to Reuters.  The Chosun Ilbo reported, however, that the new long-range missile was different from the Taepodong 2.

The new missile may be displayed during a North Korean military parade scheduled to occur tomorrow to mark the 55th anniversary of the founding of the country, according to Reuters.

“We still don’t have information on how different this missile is or what may happen at the parade tomorrow,” a South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said (Martin Nesirky, Reuters/Yahoo!News, Sept. 8).

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