A single cluster bomb scatters thousands of lethal fragments
While a standard bomb targets a single point, these statistical weapons turn a square kilometer of land into a deadly grid of two thousand flying steel shards.
A single North Korean KN-23 missile can carry hundreds of submunitions that saturate the ground using a mathematical principle called Poisson distribution. Instead of trying to hit a specific target, the weapon ensures a ninety-five percent chance of lethality within a four-hundred-meter radius by sheer volume. Each small canister releases fragments traveling at 1,200 meters per second—nearly four times the speed of sound—shredding everything in its path.
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