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North Korea expands plant to produce missiles used by Russia against Ukraine – Reuters
KN-23 missiles are designed to evade missile defenses by flying a lower, “suppressed” trajectory.
North Korea is expanding a key weapons production complex that assembles short-range missiles used by Russia in Ukraine, researchers have concluded based on satellite imagery.
The plant, known as the February 11 plant, is part of the Ryongsong Engineering Complex in Hamhun, North Korea's second-largest city in the east, Reuters writes.
Sam Lair, a fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), said the plant is the only one that produces the Hwasong-11 class of solid-fuel ballistic missiles. This ammunition, known in the West as…
