North Korea facing costly $80M failure with Musudan missile program

UPI Thu, Jun 2 6:44 AM PDT 

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SEOUL, June 2 (UPI) -- North Korea's intermediate-range ballistic program could be proving to be a costly mistake. Pyongyang's attempts to successfully test the Musudan missile has led to at least three failures in April and May, according to South Korean military intelligence. That could mean the "end of the Musudan program," according to defense analyst John Schilling. "Repeating a failed test again and again with no more than a month for analysis and troubleshooting will almost guarantee repeated failure," Schilling writes on 38 North, a Johns Hopkins University website dedicated to North Korea issues. The analyst noted the speed at which Pyongyang is carrying out the tests means North Korea ...