Little Rocket Man has a new toy.
This month, Kim Jong Un unveiled a Bond-villain-like missile with an extending tip.
On that tip was what looks to be a hypersonic glide vehicle.
A hypersonic glide vehicle is the real deal. They're extremely fast. They can manoeuvre at those high speeds. And we don’t yet know if it’s possible to shoot them down.
On paper, this means that North Korea has more advanced potentially-nuclear missiles than the West.
On paper, this is bad news.
But the story gets worse.
It was almost certainly given to them by the Chinese or the Russians.
Why?
Could North Korea be the vehicle to do for the East China Sea what the Houthis have done for the Red Sea? Undermining US power, and leaving America’s regional allies - in this case Japan and South Korea - scrambling for new, more multipolar patterns of allegiances.
Malcom Kyeyune is a columnist for Compact Magazine, a regular writer UnHerd, an expert on modern warfare, and a friend of the show.
In this week’s Special Episode, he’ll be laying out a broad range of potential futures for the region.
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