Download or read book Characterizing the North Korean Nuclear Missile Threat written by Markus Schiller and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The security community generally believes that North Korea has a relatively sophisticated guided ballistic missile program. This report questions this view and seeks to better characterize the North Korean missile threat. The author compares the available data on the North Korean missile program against five hypotheses about the program's origins, sophistication, and scale, highlighting inconsistencies.