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China-Japan-Koreas
N. Korea 'Has 10,000 Missile Experts'
2012-04-04
There are about 10,000 people working on missiles in North Korea, three times more than in the South, a high-ranking South Korean military officer said Monday. He added they have "considerable research skills."
I'm betting they're among the few who get three meals a day...
North Korea started developing ballistic missiles in the mid-1970s. It produced Scud-Bs with a range of 300 km and Scud-Cs with a range of 500 km and deployed them along the frontline in the 1980s.

The South Korean military estimates that North Korea has spent US$3.1 billion on developing and testing long-range ballistic missiles so far. The rocket North Korea plans to launch this month is likely to cost $850 million which, according to a South Korean official, is equivalent to a yearÂ’s food supply for 19 million people in the impoverished country. The South Korean military believes that even more money was spent on training missile specialists.

In contrast, South Korea has about 2,000 rocket propulsion experts in the civilian and public sectors excluding the military, some 200 of them at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute. A defense industry insider said, "Even counting the military workforce, the total capacity for missile research is far behind from North Korea's with a mere 3,000 experts."
All of whom are better fed, better paid, and have better lives. Perhaps we should be getting that message out to the Nork missile techs?
Posted by:Steve White

#9  DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SOUTH KOREA THREATENS TO STRIKE JIM JEOUNG-UN 'S PALACE IFF SEOUL ATTACKED.

BLOGGER/POSTER = the ROK has changed its Policies toward one of Pro-Invasion, + Immediate or Unlimited Mil Retaliation, agz the North for any future North-led mil provocations, ala THE "Chonan" + "Yeongpyeong" Incidents.

IMO, the ROK "Offensive/Aggressive" retaliatory Policy Changes shows that Seoul does recognize, iff only quietly or covertly, the DPRK's increasing vulnerability to DE FACTO CHINESE TAKEOVER, BE IT UNILATERAL BEIJING-ORDERED "REGIME CHANGE" AGZ KIMS, OR FORMAL ANNEXATION AS A CHINESE STATE PROVINCE.

and

* SAME > MORE THAN 40 NORTH KOREAN SOLDIERS DURING YEONGPYEONG BATTLE: YONHAP NEWS.

Looks like the NOKORS feared Artillery = Battery, Counter-Battery fire doesn't rule the DMZ roost after all???

* SAME > DEFECTORS: "SUNSHINE" POLICY PREVENTED NORTH KOREA COLLAPSE. The DPRK = NoKor was on the verge of complete State collapse until "the Policy" came along out from Hell.

versus

* SAME [old] > GOLDMAN-SACHS: UNIFIED KOREA COULD HAVE LARGER ECONOMY THAN FRANCE, GERMANY, + [possibly] JAPAN BY 2050.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-04-04 22:30  

#8  Other countries call them "archers"...
Posted by: Thereque Ebbeper5747   2012-04-04 14:07  

#7  The whole squad, Glenmore. They're surely cross trained, aren't they?
Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division   2012-04-04 11:37  

#6  An Army mortarman counts as a missile expert, doesn't he?
Posted by: Glenmore   2012-04-04 11:19  

#5  I think they meant ex-spurts.
Posted by: crosspatch   2012-04-04 04:13  

#4  When I visited Communist countries, I noted that when presented with a simple question, it took 5 sovietskis to talk about it, before one would answer it. A country with antique communication systems is an open book. A lot of SK talk is purely tactical.
Posted by: Black Charlie Mussolini6055   2012-04-04 04:08  

#3  Any country, even the US, has to make investment decisions since you cannot fund everything. So the Norks are investing in missiles. Conclusion: Someone is paying them to invest in missiles. So who is (are) the customers, besides Iran?

PS. I kinda liked the auto-generated name: Shirong Turkeyneck1340

:-)
Posted by: Mike Ramsey   2012-04-04 03:52  

#2  Ten K who THINK they're expert is nore like it.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-04-04 00:37  

#1  "10,000 Missle Experts ... considerable resarch skills" > which, of course, explains the failures???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-04-04 00:26  

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