North Korea’s Chinese Nuclear Naval Bastion Strategy

North Korea’s Chinese Nuclear Naval Bastion Strategy
A photo shows what the North Korean regime said was a test fire of a new intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea on Jan. 6, 2025. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un must be sweating bullets now that Israel’s 12-day air bombardment and special operations campaign against Iran eliminated its air defenses, clearing the way for U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Operation Midnight Hammer,” the culmination of a 15-year effort to develop weapons, including the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, that can reach almost 300 feet down to obliterate Iranian nuclear facilities.

Rick Fisher
Rick Fisher
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Rick Fisher is a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center.