Is China helping N.Korea to guide Its Missiles?

中国の技術利用して北朝鮮の弾道ミサイル命中精度が大幅向上か
2014-08-06 08:45

Is North Korea Using China's Satellites to Guide Its Missiles? | The National Interest Blog

While information on military programs in the North is difficult to verify, reports going back to 2014 show that North Korean engineers were in China for technology training on how the country’s satellite navigation system — known as Beidou or Compass — worked.

Later the same year, another news report cited a Chinese military expert as saying China cannot stop North Korea from using Beidou in military operations.

Beside Beidou, the other main satellite navigation options for North Korea are the Global Positioning System of the United States and the Russian system known as Glonass.

“While I would never exclude the possibility of Glonass applications for N Korea’s rocket and missile systems, Beidou looks like a more reasonable solution for N Korea,” said Yu Koizumi, a research fellow at Japan’s Institute for Future Engineering, in an email.



China has always been a willing endorser of a well-armed North Korea and seldom if ever criticizes Pyongyang’s efforts to expand and enhance its arsenal of conventional weapons.

Right now, though, the US needs to focus on the scope of Beidou’s role in North Korea’s missile program and initiate a discussion about it with Beijing.

Perhaps the question of Beidou and its role in guiding North Korea’s growing fleet of drones should be on the agenda, too.

中国が手伝ってんじゃないの、裏で？

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電波戦だな。