China, North Korea Test New Weapons To Deter U.S. Missile Defenses
Newsy
The Biden administration will have to decide whether to ignore the development, build missile defenses to counter attacks, or negotiate.
New weapons capabilities from two adversaries in Asia and they're meant to evade U.S. missile defenses.
North Korea said Wednesday it test-fired a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile.
"Their older submarine launch missiles can go much further," nuclear policy program senior fellow Ankit Panda said. "What this one does is it potentially makes missile defense a lot more difficult because this missile is going to fly low. It's going to spend most of its time in the Earth's atmosphere, unlike their previous missiles ... It's going to do pull up maneuvers and all kinds of things that will make defending more difficult."
