Iran’s attack on Israel this week has fixed global attention on the risk of widening conflict in the Middle East — and raised questions about whether North Korea could copy Tehran’s tactics in its own strike.

Iran used over 300 “kamikaze” drones and ballistic and cruise missiles but seemingly failed to deliver critical damage as almost all of these threats were intercepted.

But a potential attack by nuclear-armed North Korea against its neighbor would present a drastically different threat, according to Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment