Is North Korea a Hypersonic Threat?

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

North Korea is back in the headlines, and as usual, it’s not because they’ve invented a new soft drink. No, Kim Jong Un’s fiefdom has once again launched missiles into the sea, claims to have invented hypersonic ones, is building up their capability to launch nuclear-tipped missiles from submarines and is restarting everyone’s favorite nuclear reactor at Yong Byon.

So, why are we here again, and what does it mean?

Well, Jean Lee rejoins the show to help us understand what’s going on and what we can expect next.

In a first for America, Jean opened the Associated Press’ bureau in Pyongyang in 2012. She’s now a North Korea expert at the Wilson Center and is co-host of the Lazarus Heist, a podcast from the BBC.

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0:00.0	Love this podcast support this show through the a cast supporter feature
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0:25.0	Frankly, that seems to be the problem.
0:31.0	Welcome to Angry Planet. Hello and I'm Matthew Galt.
0:45.0	Really? We're doing this again.
0:48.0	Really? We're doing this again?
0:51.0	North Korea is back in the headlines and as usual it's not because they've invented a new soft drink.
0:57.0	No, Kim Jong-un's fiefdom has once again launched missiles into the sea, and it claims to have invented hypersonic ones.
1:05.0	They're building on their capability to launch nuclear-tip missiles from submarines
1:10.0	and they're restarting everyone's favorite nuclear reactor at Young Bion.
1:15.0	Why are we here again? And what does it mean?
1:19.0	Well, Jean Lee joins the show to help us understand what's going on and what we can expect next.
1:25.7	In a first for America, Gene opened the Associated Press Bureau in Pyongyang in 2012.
1:31.7	She's now a North Korea expert at the Wilson Center and a co-host of The
1:36.5	Lazarus Hiest, a podcast from the BBC. Thanks so much for joining us.
1:41.5	Well I'm sorry that it's North Korea's provocations that are bringing me back to this show,
1:48.0	but it's great to talk to you guys again.
1:50.0	Can you start by giving us a rundown on what's happening on the Korean Peninsula right now?
1:57.0	So what's not happening? So North Korea is back. We've seen North Korea amping up its weapons testing over the last few weeks.
2:05.6	So just this month alone we've had three missile tests from North Korea.
2:11.6	These are tests of a long-range cruise missile, a ballistic missile that was
2:17.2	spectacularly launched from a train. Go and check out that footage. And the latest just this week was what North Korea claims is a
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