No, they don't. North Korea has been exporting SCUD missiles since the 80s. They, demonstrably, have the tech to build them.
They have also demonstrated higher accuracy missiles that indicate satnav integration. This isn't a hypothetical, it is a "There is video and civilian satellite imagery confirming it."
They regularly demonstrate the ability to strike a 100m-sixed island off their coast. And, even assuming they had no tech more advanced than the SCUDS they had in the 90s... inertial navigation is still enough to get a 1km CEP.
>can't miniaturize nukes
The nukes they've shown off are of adequate size to fit on their larger missiles at least. Again, assuming they've made exactly no progress at all, which is groundless.
>They can't sustainably compost enough of their dead citizens to make fuel for the rockets.
I mean, they launched more missiles in 2022 than any other year before it despite all of the economic lockdown of COVID, do maybe they do have some secret peasant compost.
>“[SECAF Kendall] basically made clear that DoD business is not, in essence, domestic drug issues even though DoD is one of the primary people responsible,” Kinzinger said about the meeting.
The DoD being one of the "primary people responsible" for counter-narcotic operations is a self-perpetuating mission requirement. The DoD is responsible for military operations, not law enforcement and counternarcotics. Counternarcotic and border control support was an opportunistic mission - a way to make better use of sorties that would've otherwise just been empty training flights. The RC-26's original, tactical mission has been supplanted by objectively better platforms, both manned and unmanned - and the "side bonus" of counternarcotics can't itself justify the airframe's continued use.
It's like planning a road trip to some big destination and planning to stop for coffee along the way - then deciding not to go to the destination, but still driving out to the "on the way" coffee place hundreds of miles away.
Kaysic OP t1_j2frqhm wrote
Reply to comment by Merluner in N. Korea fires ballistic missile toward East Sea by Kaysic
No, they don't. North Korea has been exporting SCUD missiles since the 80s. They, demonstrably, have the tech to build them.
They have also demonstrated higher accuracy missiles that indicate satnav integration. This isn't a hypothetical, it is a "There is video and civilian satellite imagery confirming it."