North Korea’s Expanding Military Ambitions in Space

North Korea’s Expanding Military Ambitions in Space

Commentary Pyongyang’s anti-satellite ambitions are not a technical sideshow. They follow directly from the nature of the regime itself. Watch Western coverage of North Korea long enough, and a pattern emerges. Attention shifts from one episode to the next. A summit. A missile test. Sanctions. Now the Party Congress. Most of the recent attention surrounding North Korea’s Ninth Party Congress has focused on Kim Jong Un’s position on South Korea a…