# DPRK flight-tests Hwasong-15; UNSC 2397 follows

Date: 2017

## The fact

On 28 November 2017 the DPRK flight-tested the Hwasong-15 ICBM. The Security Council adopted resolution 2397 on 22 December 2017.

## Context

Range estimates reached the US mainland neighbourhood. He commanded the missile bureau. The Council wrote 2397; he did not.

Nuclear 3 September; ICBM 28 November; 2397 on 22 December. Keep dates. Keep DPRK flight-tests Hwasong-15; UNSC 2397 follows on 2017-11-28 separate from neighbouring nuclear-test, camp, Vostochny, treaty, and troop-despatch instruments.

The President of the State Affairs Commission commands the armed forces and signs treaties.

## Evidence and sources

UN Security Council carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [missile-threat level](/drivers/missile-threat-level) and [sanctions pressure](/drivers/sanctions-pressure) from a completed ICBM flight, not [nuclear-escalation-risk](/drivers/nuclear-escalation-risk) (1949).

## What is established and what is not

Established: Hwasong-15 was flight-tested in late November 2017 and UNSC 2397 followed on 22 December 2017.

Not established: A unique 2017 US city-pair casualty coefficient from the lofted trajectory.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The KPA flew it. The Security Council wrote 2397.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies DPRK flight-tests Hwasong-15; UNSC 2397 follows, not a later speech about DPRK flight-tests Hwasong-15; UNSC 2397 follows.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. DPRK flight-tests Hwasong-15; UNSC 2397 follows on 2017-11-28 is not a licence to treat every later UN Security Council communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average DPRK flight-tests Hwasong-15; UNSC 2397 follows into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He commanded the missile bureau. The KPA flew it. The Security Council wrote 2397. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kim Jong-un: https://factrail.ai/people/kim-jong-un

## Drivers

- Missile-Threat Level: https://factrail.ai/drivers/missile-threat-level
- Sanctions Pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/sanctions-pressure

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-idUSKBN1DT0Y20171129/
- https://undocs.org/S/RES/2397(2017)

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/kp-hwasong-15-2017