Summary
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised tests of “suicide drones” and ordered their mass production, emphasizing the need for these low-cost, explosive-carrying UAVs in modern military strategy.
The drones, developed by North Korea’s Unmanned Aerial Technology Complex, successfully targeted both land and sea objectives.
The push for drone production comes amid North Korea’s growing military cooperation with Russia, and parallels the global rise of drones in conflicts like those in Ukraine and the Middle East. Kim aims to integrate these drones into North Korea’s broader military capabilities.
How come we don’t call cruise missiles, “suicide rockets”?
Because rockets and missiles are not the same thing. Missiles have internal guidance systems and can alter their course.
Optics. Because we’re the ones launching them.
While I don’t think that what you’re saying is by any means implausible, there is an actual difference here. All rockets and missiles destroy themselves in the process of attacking a target. Not all drones do. A lot of them have a simple mechanism that drops a grenade or similar