Weekly Blog 15

Japanese analysts, who have been studying 6 photos of North Korea's new missiles, have said that the weapons were very non-convincing fakes. Earlier this month, North Korea made a statement saying that it had the power to defeat the U.S. in a single blow and had the capability to take "special actions" that would take out South Korea's government in a matter of minutes. The analysts say that the new weapons are not really that dangerous, since they appear to be a mix of liquid-fuel and solid-fuel components, metal that was too thin to withstand flight, and that the missiles didn't even fit on the launchers.


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I think that many people around the world suspected North Korea of doing something like this. I think they did it because they wanted to make up for their failed "satellite" launch as quickly as possible, but still create fear in their enemies at the same time. However, now that everyone knows the missiles are fake, hardly anyone will take them or their threats seriously. On the other hand, these missiles might show the rest of the world what kind of long-range missiles North Korea is developing and working on, and how we might be able to prevent them from reaching us or develop some sort of defense against them. The article also states that the missiles' launcher were designed to carry missiles that are bigger and longer than those revealed last week, which leads experts to think that North Korea would not have made them specifically for these fake missiles, but are/will be used for bigger, actually working missiles.