{"id":34931,"date":"2021-12-29T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34931"},"modified":"2021-12-29T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T15:30:13","slug":"north-korea-is-only-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/12\/29\/north-korea-is-only-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Is Only Quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you thought North Korea had disappeared, no, it has not. Here&#8217;s a video they released of an <strong>SRBM<\/strong> (short-range ballistic missile) test launch back in September.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Video of North Korea&#39;s TLBM (train-launched ballistic misisle) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tbcjBgJFco\">pic.twitter.com\/tbcjBgJFco<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colin Zwirko (@ColinZwirko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColinZwirko\/status\/1438464509283225603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.38north.org\/2021\/09\/its-the-launcher-not-the-missile-initial-evaluation-of-north-koreas-rail-mobile-missile-launches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a> from <em><strong>38 North<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The unveiling of a\u00a0<strong><em>rail-mobile<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0SRBM is surprising, given that North Korea has deployed all of its SRBMs on road-mobile launchers since their advent in the mid-1980s, and all of its new SRBMs (including the KN-23 and the \u201cnew type\u201d variant) have been displayed on such launchers. Road-mobile deployment of such small missiles is straightforward and well-understood by Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p>The September 16 statement suggests that going rail-mobile was intended to diversify and add to the mobility and flexibility of the missile force and its ability to \u201cdeal a heavy blow at the threatening forces multiconcurrently [sic] with dispersive firing across the country.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.38north.org\/2021\/09\/its-the-launcher-not-the-missile-initial-evaluation-of-north-koreas-rail-mobile-missile-launches\/#_ftn5\" name=\"_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a>\u00a0Pyongyang may also have seen propaganda value in revealing a hitherto unknown basing mode, and one cannot rule out the possibility of a new pet project of the reputedly train-loving Kim Jong Un.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the <strong>SRBMs<\/strong> that&#8217;s an issue so much as their work on <strong>ICBMs<\/strong>\u00a0(intercontinental ballistic missiles), which has been reported before, as Vann H. Van Diepen concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The significance of the September 15 SRBM tests is not the missiles, which are along the lines of existing types, but the use of a rail-mobile launcher, which has little added value for the North\u2019s already road-mobile SRBM force but important implications for its ICBMs. ICBMs, which are harder to make road-mobile than smaller missiles, would benefit from rail mobility much more than smaller systems. While rail-mobility is inferior to road-mobility in terms of promoting survivability, rail-mobile systems are significantly more survivable than fixed-base ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you thought North Korea had disappeared, no, it has not. Here&#8217;s a video they released of an SRBM (short-range ballistic missile) test launch back in September. Video of North Korea&#39;s TLBM (train-launched ballistic misisle) pic.twitter.com\/tbcjBgJFco &mdash; Colin Zwirko (@ColinZwirko) September 16, 2021 More from 38 North: The unveiling \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/12\/29\/north-korea-is-only-quiet\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34942,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34931\/revisions\/34942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}