Kim Jong-un Tells His Air Force Leadership that they Will Field New Strategic Asset
The only strategic asset I can think of is something nuclear related. However, it would make no sense for them to develop a strategic bomber when their current ballistic missile inventory is enough for deterrence:
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended a ceremony marking the 80th founding anniversary of the country’s air force, saying it will be given new strategic military assets and a “new important duty,” state media reported Sunday.
Kim made the remarks during the celebration event held Friday at Kalma Airport of the 59th Kil Yong Jo Hero Flying Group of the Second Air Wing, to mark the founding anniversary of the Air Force of the Korean People’s Army, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
Delivering a speech at the anniversary celebration, Kim said, “The Air Force will be given new strategic military assets and entrusted with a new important duty,” although he did not specify what those strategic assets would be.
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I won’t be terribly surprised if it’s hypersonic missiles. It seems like everyone is building them these days except for America and allies. Btw, anyone tracking Russia has recently successfully tested a nuclear powered nuclear cruise missile? Western media of course dismisses the 9M730 Burevestnik as propaganda, but the same media also claims Russia is losing, losing, losing and has millions dead in Ukraine while Ukraine is totally approaching its final victory. The more the strategic situation deteriorates, the more hysterical the claims of superiority.
RAND recently published a report ‘Stabilizing the US-China Rivalry’ which points out we are hopelessly positioned in the Pacific for a conflict and the best course of action is avoiding a direct one. Within weeks the report was disappeared. Meanwhile USMC lectures to Junior Officers about the strategic situation are pumped full of fantasy notions of directly fighting the Chinese in the Pacific. What ever happened to Surfaces and Gaps? Chinese logistics through the Belt and Road Initiative, especially those that flow through Central Asia present the easiest, most lucrative targets for deterrence… yet no one even entertains the notion. We aren’t allowed to know ourselves or even the enemy. It is incredibly frustrating.
Does anybody else have Nuclear Capable Air-Launched Cruise Missile on their North Korean New Weapons System bingo card?