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Analysis What to make of the Hwasong-20, North Korea’s puzzling new nuclear missile‘Most powerful’ ICBM shown at Oct. 10 parade subverted expectations that it’d be bigger than solid-fuel predecessor North Korea held what will likely be the final parade of its ongoing five-year military modernization campaign on Friday, unveiling multiple new missiles in another showcase of the central role of strategic and tactical nuclear systems in Kim Jong Un’s defense strategy. The Oct. 10 parade commemorated the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and the star of the show was the Hwasong-20 intercontinental-range ballistic missile (ICBM), which official propaganda praised as the “most powerful” weapon in the state’s nuclear arsenal. The other notable new asset on display was © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |





