August 18, 2017

The recent Japanese Defense White Paper warns of threats from North Korea arising from Pyongyang’s continued missile tests, including the last two Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) tests. Significantly, Japan published its annual Defense White Paper on the tail of the ICBM tests in August 2017.  

The 2017 White Paper, which runs into 563 pages, noted that North Korea carried out two nuclear explosions and had carried out more than 20 ballistic missile tests since 2016. 20 rounds of tests during this time meant that the Kim Jong Un regime fired more missiles than his father’s regime did (an estimated 16 missiles in total) in 18 years. Some experts consider this as an acceleration of the missile program under the Kin Jong Un regime. 

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