Hwasong-12

The Hwasong-12, also designated KN-17 by outside analysts, is a North Korean intermediate-range ballistic missile with a stated range of about 4,500 kilometers. It is a single-stage, liquid-propellant missile about 17.4 meters long and 1.65 meters across, carried on a road-mobile transporter-erector launcher and fitted with a single warhead of roughly 500 kilograms that could be nuclear or conventional. It first appeared at a Pyongyang parade in April 2017, and its first fully successful test flew 787 kilometers on a lofted path on May 14, 2017. Later tests in 2017 overflew Hokkaido in Japan, and North Korea has flown it at least seven times with four successes and three failures. Analysts judge its engine to be a variant of the Russian RD-250. Six were paraded in October 2020, but it remains unclear whether the missile has been operationally deployed.