North Korea's Record Missile Flurry Cost as Much as $650 Million.

Kim presided over the start of a top-level media of thestate's ruling party, official media reported Thursday,without providing further details. Kim's regime spent an estimated $400 million to $650million to build and test the 33 missiles it fired thisyear, data compiled by the Korea Institute for DefenseAnalyses, a government-affiliated military researchcenter show. (Bloomberg) -- North Korea may have spent as much as $650million on the missiles tested in a record barrage oflaunches this year, which comes as it battles Covid andfood shortages made worse by leader Kim Jong Un'sdecision to shut borders due to the pandemic. [Extracted from the article]