Ballistic Missile Guidance Bureau
Cruise Missile Drill Held in Kim Ch’aek City
A cruise missile element under the Korean People’s Army [KPA] eastern command zone conducted a cruise missile drill using Hwasal-2 (Arrow-2) cruise missiles. Other KPA artillery sub-units conducted support and training exercises. The missile drill […]
DPRK Drills Tactical Nuke MLRS
Korean People’s Army [KPA] artillery units launched two short-range projectiles using a 600 mm multiple-launch rocket system [MLRS] on the morning (KST) of 20 February Sukch’o’n County, South P’yo’ngan. The KPA units also conducted tunnel-based […]
2023 Chronology of Missile and Military Events
The following is a rolling chronology of ballistic missile events (drills and test firings), military engagement and external military exercises (US-ROK, US-JP and US-ROK-JP) that occur in and around the the Korean Peninsula during 2023. […]
Hwasong-15 launched from Sunan
On the afternoon (KST) of 18 February (Saturday), the DPRK’s Missile General Bureau managed a drill of the Hwasong-15 theater ballistic missile from the Sunan area of Pyongyang. The missile drill was held after an […]
Chronology of military events since mid-September
The following is a rolling chronology of ballistic missile events (drills and test firings), artillery shelling incidents and external military exercises (US-ROK, US-JP and US-ROK-JP) that have occurred in and around the Korean Peninsula since […]
Pak To Chun (1944-202?)
Pak To Chun (Pak To-ch’un) has passed away. Rather than a state media announcement about Pak’s death, his demise was disclosed during a KCNA report about the burial of his remains in the Patriotic Martyrs’ […]
Hypersonic Missile Test Starts DPRK New Year with a Bang
The Workers’ Party of Korea [WPK] Munitions Industry Department [MID] tested a hypersonic missile on the morning of 5 January (Wednesday). According to DPRK state media, the “successive test successes in the sector of hypersonic […]
