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No more room for doubt over North Korea’s missile program

Recent events a wake-up call for all those who doubted the extend of the regime's advances

March 2016 was a hectic month for North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. From the unveiling of a miniaturized nuclear bomb designed to fit a long-range ballistic missile to a test of a missile nose tip to another revelation: a peek into Pyongyang’s clandestine program of building a multi-staged, large diameter, solid-fuel missile.

These were just a few items on Kim’s agenda. But wait, there was also the biggest artillery drill ever conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK); a test of long-range guided rockets. And what about that propaganda clip, right out of the regime’s animation studios, showing how a nuclear warhead would destroy Washington, D.C., hitting the U.S. capital smack in the middle of the National Mall.

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