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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders at the US Ambassador’s Residence on October 28, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
Missile Defense
Missile Defense
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Kim Jong-Un celebrating the successful test-fire of the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14, July 4, 2017 (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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US president Donald Trump ahead of the third plenary session of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 8, 2017 (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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South Korean TV showing image from North Korea's ICBM launch, July 4, 2017 (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)
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This undated photo released by the official Korean Central News Agency on May 30, 2017 shows a test-fire of a ballistic missile at an undisclosed location (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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Otto Warmbier arrives at a court for his trial in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 16, 2015 (Xinhua/Lu Rui via Getty Images)
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Two US Army THAAD launchers arrive in South Korea, March 5, 2017 (MSgt Jeremy Larlee)
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A long-range ground-based interceptor successfully intercepted an ICBM target launched from the U.S. Army’s Reagan Test Site. This was the first live-fire test event against an ICBM-class target (Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Department of Defense)
Experts
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
Timothy A. Walton
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
