Word: kwangmyongsong
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North Korea’s recent attempt to launch its Kwangmyongsong-2 three stage booster rocket—which many experts have described as a civilian adaptation of its Taepodong-2 ballistic missile—should serve as a reminder of the unstable international security environment in Northeast Asia. Although the test itself was a failure—according to the New York Times, U.S. Northern Command and Japan’s Ministry of Defense, the missile fell apart in the Western Pacific—North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and its already extant launch capability should...
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