Jiang Guiying Shouer Correspondent
Experts speculate that North Korea only in January this yearAfter launching 11 missiles, it may cost $ 65 million (S $ 87.475959), which is equivalent to buying the expenditure of North Korean residents for half a month.
The Voice of America quoted Bruce Berneter, a senior researcher at the American military security expert and senior researcher of the Rand Institute that considering the marginal cost of missile launch, the cost of a short -range missile in North Korea was about 3 millionTo $ 5 million ($ 4.03 million to S $ 6.72 million), a medium -range missile launched a medium -range missile was $ 10 million to $ 15 million (13.44 million to S $ Singapore 2017 million).
North Korea launched a hypersonic missile, long -range missiles and medium -range missile seven times from January 5th to 30th, a total of 11 missiles.
From this calculation, the price of missiles launched in January in January is as high as US $ 40 million to $ 65 million. If North Korea will launch intercontinental missiles in the future, it is estimated that $ 20 million to 30 million US dollars will be required.
It is reported that the price of Thai rice per ton of Thai rice per ton as the global rice price benchmark is $ 430 (S $ 578.2).Moon's food.
North Korea consumes about 10,000 tons of food every day. A report released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization last year showed that North Korea lacks 860,000 tons of grain each year.
Dr. Bernet pointed out that this is assuming that North Korea already has missile facilities, launch stations, and manpower, so it is calculated without adding these costs.
Former George University professor William Brown believes that test firing is part of the development of missiles, and missiles and nuclear weapons projects require a lot of costs.The test cost is just a small part of the overall cost.
North Korea's Internet stealing millions of dollars cryptocurrency fund funding project
A report recently reported by the United Nations stated that North Korea's network attacks have been stolen valueMillions of dollars of cryptocurrencies to fund the missile plans.Investigators found that from 2020 to 2021, the network attacker stole more than 50 million US dollars (S $ 67.23 million) digital assets.Such attacks are the "important source of income" of Pyongyang nuclear plan and ballistic missile plan.
