Analysis The accuracy – or lack of – of North Korea’s missilesWeapons such as the North's are more useful as instruments of terror than of precision North Korea has a large missile arsenal, but the majority of them have very poor accuracy. Missile accuracy can be a slightly confusing statistic, so this article will break down what it means. The accuracy of missiles is typically given in circular error probable, or CEP. CEP is a little bit of a weird number. The CEP of a missile indicate the area that a missile will hit 50 percent of the time. So if a missile has a CEP of 500 meters, then the missile will hit somewhere within 500 meters of its aim point only 50 percent of the © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |