Through the Looking Glass: Chinese Open Source Assessments 

of North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Capabilities 

Date:Thursday, October 15, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location:Online Event (Zoom) 

Foreign researchers have increasingly leveraged advanced open 

source intelligence technology and cooperated across countries to 

track North Korea’s developments over the last 25 years. 

 But one country has been left out  China.  Are there open source

Chinese analyses of DPRK ballistic missiles, do they align with

U.S. assessments, and is there anything for other researchers to gain

from reading these analyses 

This report by Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga 

and Dr. Scott W. Harold examines Chinese assessments of North Korean ballistic missile capabilities

between 1998 and 2017. 

3:00 PM  Welcoming Remarks
Speaker: Dr. John Park (Director, Korea Project, Harvard Belfer Center)

3:05 PM  Panel Discussion
Moderator: Dr. John Park (Director, Korea Project, Harvard Kennedy School)
Discussant: Dr. Ariel Petrovics (Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Belfer Center)
Speakers: Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga (Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation); Dr. Scott W. Harold