The missile had suffered a number of launch failures in North Korean testing and in Iranian service.

A 1985 cooperative agreement may have provided North Korea with Iranian funds for missile development.

[19][20][21][22] The testing in 2018 and 2019 of four new road-mobile, solid propellant propulsion, SRBMs marked a qualitative improvement in North Korean missiles.

Flying through this coverage gap and using active steering increases survivability against missile defenses.

[27] The Strategic Force is a branch of the KPA[6] and is likely directly subordinate to the General Staff Department.

[5] There are other numerous smaller sites, scattered around the country, serving for mobile launcher pads.

Detailed listings of the equipment holdings of the Korean People's Army are rather scarce in unclassified literature.

It said the North has some 40 transporter erector launchers (TELs) in this belt, which makes the missiles harder to detect.

[53] As of 2017[update], North Korea is thought to possess about 900 short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs).

[55] Rather speculative estimates are given in the following table: Hwasong-8 mod 1[8] A solid-fuel IRBM in North Korean missile arsenal.

Despite the claims by numerous media that North Korea has not yet created nuclear warheads small enough to be fit in a missile, reports surfaced in April 2009, according to which North Korea has miniaturized warheads, capable of being mounted on its missiles.

North Korea possesses a large chemical weapons stockpile, including powerful agents such as tabun, sarin, soman, VX gas and others.

They are probably limited, as North Koreans consider them much more dangerous to handle, therefore posing a threat to their own soldiers.

[54] Several countries, including Egypt, Vietnam, Iran, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen, have bought North Korean ballistic missiles or components, or received assistance from North Korea to establish local missile production.