to 100 individuals to operate the system, it s a defensive missile system and it was brought up today and zelenskyy said he wants more. as soon as they implement that on the battle field, they d like to see as much more of it as possible to keep the skies safe of the bombardment of infrastructure in the often times kills civilians. a little tension i think there, too, president biden pointing towards his european allies potentially as the reason why for example the united states hasn t delivered all these separate weapons capabilities that it slowly seems to deliver as the challenges mount for ukraine, widening what they re willing to give in terms of technology. suggested they hadn t given them at once because they didn t want to upset european allies. i m fparaphrasing now saying th u.s. had to be cautious to keep the alliance in tact. many european officials will say they think it s them that
south. they are making incremental gains down in the south near kerr son, what you are going to he so from us and even in just the even in just coming days, you are going to see us continue to provide security assistance. the kinds of weapons capabilities that they have been using to win back their territory in those four areas and we expect that they will continue to do so going forward. brian: the story in the new york times today that they looked at so-called tactical nukes and how they might be implemented on the battle field no. way. all their options are risky. any type of radiation is more than likely going to blow back in their own country and most they can do is make certain sections of ukraine uninbe habitable. is this all bluster? didn t you guys war game this out when you thought about usine tactical weapons and thought about doing this? isn t it impossible to really use them effectively? brian, we are taking the threats that mr. putin is
and so this kind of show of force is really just to show pyongyang that they are able to strike back if they wanted to. now, of course, whether this makes any difference to kim jong-un it s probably unlikely. he is very much it austin powers in a testing mode at this point with no interest it appears to have any kind of negotiation or engagement with either washington or seoul. we ve heard just last year, january of last year, kim jong-un gave his wish list of his weapons capability. he gave a very open wish list of exactly what he wanted to perfect when it came to his missile campaign and it came to his weapons capabilities, and experts say he s effectively working through it going down the list and making sure that that he can secure these weapons capabilities. some of the recent launches from north korea have been perceived to be failures, but even those are learned from. i don t think yang will understand more about the technology from those failures as well, so even though they
testing its weapons systems at this point, and trying to push forward its capabilities than having any kind of engagement with either south korea or with the united states. now, the previous time that it had a launch was may 25th, that, of course, was hours after the is us president joe biden had left the region. he was here in seoul and tokyo the end of last month and there were fears that north korea could fire something and launch something while he was still in the region. but the fact is that this intensity has not been seen for some time. we also know there has been a number of failures or perceived failures within the launches. those are the ones that pyongyang doesn t publicly admit to, but we re told about from officials. even those are useful because that is how pyongyang is learning that it is how they are managing to improve their weapons capabilities. and we heard from kim jong-un the north korean leader in january of last year saying exactly what he wanted to achieve. a w
isa. we know we re about a week out of the beijing 2022 winter games. china, north korea s neighbor, bene benefactor, economic patron, has a lot of hopes on these games going off very smoothly and certainly wouldn t welcome the kind of distraction these north korean missile tests increasingly provocative some might argue would cause, and yet north korea is doing it. and they might be doing it precisely for the reason they want all eyes to be on their country. they want people to be talking about north korea, even though they re not participating in the beijing games, citing the coronavirus pandemic, and hostile forces, such as the united states. so the test they carried out, we don t know for sure yet, we re going through the numbers, this could be north korea s busiest month ever for ballistic missile tests or one of their busiest months ever. they lay out the full spectrum of north korean weapons capabilities, they have been testing ballistic missiles, they have been testing cruise m