By Zachary Keck
North Korea’s new Kh-35 anti-ship missile threatens South Korean vessels. Who sold it to Pyongyang?
North Korea recently displayed a dangerous new anti-ship missile, prompting the obvious question of which country sold it to Pyongyang.
According to the Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean left-leaning news outlet, a recent propaganda video shown on North Korea’s state television displayed a new anti-ship missile for the first time. An unnamed South Korean military official told the newspaper that the missile is “probably either the Russian-developed Kh-35 Uran or a copy.”
The Kh-35 is an anti-ship cruise missile that the Soviet Union first conceived of in the 1970s, and ordered the production of the following decade. It wasn’t until the 1990s that the missile entered into service in what by then was the Russian Federation military.
The Kh-35 is often compared to Boeing’s Harpoon. Different variants can be launched from a variety of platforms, including surface vessels, coastal systems, naval helicopters and aircraft. In the propaganda film, the missile is displayed on a North Korean surface ship.
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