North Korea’s Penultimate Threat: Mobile Solid-Fuel Rockets
Commentary
After nearly two decades of striving, North Korea, with plenty of Chinese help, has finally reached the stage of world-class nuclear terror in service of the hegemonic ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Eleven years after North Korea’s April 15, 2012, revelation of a mockup of a liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) traveling on a large 16-wheel Chinese-made truck, in its latest Feb. 8 military display, Pyongyang paraded four solid-fuel ICBMs, all traveling on a larger 18-wheel truck either made in China or co-produced in North Korea.
North Korea’s missile truck, capable of launching its liquid-fueled or solid rocket ICBMs, called a transporter-erector-launcher (TEL), is a product of the Sanjiang Special Vehicle Company of the larger China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), one of two main Chinese state-owned missile conglomerates….