Are you going to transfer ICBM and nuclear submarine technologies?The temptation of "Foreign Money" also plays a part.

North Korea's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) provocation in December last year
Solid fuel 'Hwasong-18'...Kim Jong-un observes with his daughter Joo-ae
North Korea's "Succeeded Test Launch"...The same 'high angle launch' as before.

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Even after the government announced the dispatch of North Korean troops to Russia, North Korea has remained silent without much response.

Analysts say that North Korea's decision to dispatch troops seems to have been the result of a thorough examination of its interests.

I'm reporter Lee Jong Won.

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North Korea's latest intercontinental ballistic missile and ICBM provocation was in December last year.It was a Hwasong-18 type based on solid fuel

, and Chairman Kim Jong-un visited the launch site and accompanied his daughter Joo-ae and his wife Ri Sol-ju.

[Chosun Central TV (December last year): When Washington made a wrong decision against us, it was an opportunity to clearly show what actions we are prepared for and what choices we will make....]

At the time, North Korea claimed that the test was a huge success, but it was the same 'high-angle launch' method as before.

For this reason, the South Korean military believes that it has not reached the actual range, that is, the reentry technology of the warhead into the atmosphere, which is the core technology of normal angle firing.

It is a technology that makes a projectile past its peak altitude withstand a high temperature of more than 7,000 degrees Celsius when it enters the atmosphere again, and is evaluated as the final stage of ICBM.

It is mentioned as a key military technology that North Korea can take care of as a counter benefit to Russia's dispatch.

[Moon Sung-mook/Director of the Unification Strategy Center (YTN NewsNOW) of the Korea National Institute for Strategic Studies (KIST) developed nuclear weapons to maintain the superiority of military power, but the core technology of ICBM intercontinental ballistic missiles that can strike the U.S. is lacking. Like reentry technology.]

It is also possible to predict the possibility of technical support related to nuclear-powered submarines, which Chairman Kim Jong-un mentioned the need at every opportunity.

Recently, North Korea has been caught building large submarines, but the South Korean military believes that it has not yet equipped key equipment such as nuclear reactors to be used in nuclear-powered submarines.

Technology transfer related to a spy satellite that failed in May is one of the possible scenarios.

In addition, experts say that if the number of dispatched personnel reaches 10,000, it would have been a temptation for the North Korean command to earn tens of billions of won in foreign currency a month through salaries.

[Cho Han-beom/senior researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification: Acquiring foreign currency from large-scale dispatch of troops will be a great achievement, and there is a possibility that it will provide advanced military technology and precision weapons to North Korea. It's a very important situation, so you can also understand the actual experience.]


However, experts observe that the dispatch is a gamble-like adventure, which could have fatal consequences that could jeopardize the system depending on the extent of damage to the North Korean military.

I'm YTN's Lee Jong Won.

Video editing: Ma Young-hoo