North Korea Missile Launches Cost in One Day an Estimated $75 Million; More Than the Cost of Rice They Imported in One Year
This is just all the more reason why countries should not be giving aid to North Korea, clearly the Kim regime believes firing missiles is more important than buying food:
North Korea launched at least 23 missiles on Wednesday and six more on Thursday, adding to its already record-breaking pace of weapons tests this year. Many were nuclear-capable ballistic missiles designed to destroy South Korean and U.S. targets.
They likely include a developmental Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile, surface-to-air missiles and a variety of short-range ballistic missiles. North Korea has a reputation for frequent missile tests, but it has never launched that many missiles in a single day.
Soo Kim, a security analyst at the California-based RAND Corporation, said the cost of a North Korean missile test could range between several million dollars to $10 million, which would be lower than similar tests in other countries, partly because North Korean labor is cheap.
Bruce Bennet, another expert at the RAND Corporation, told Radio Free Asia that the short-range missiles Wednesday cost between $2 million to $3 million each and the total cost for the day was somewhere between $50 million and $75 million. RFA said the maximum estimate is about the amount of money that North Korea spent to import rice from China in 2019 to cover grain shortages that year.
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Where are all the caring leftists sweetly bellowing “You can’t hug your children with nuclear arms”?
Instead, we see them offering to fellate the Norks and their poor, benighted, parasite-ridden army.
“Will you have another box of Choco-Pies?”
Making lots of money of the fentanyl trade.
The Trumpians are scared stiff of the NK missiles. Silly people.
A woman walks into a Pyongyang food store. “Do you have any meat?”
“No, we don’t.”
“What about milk?”
“We only deal with meat. Across the street there is that store where they have no milk.”
You can’t hug your child with nuclear arms.
That is true.
But you can forcefully push communism away.