>>508243204 (OP)Real answer: Transportation
no other country would allow it to be flown over their airspace. China isn't gonna let the north Koreans launch a sketchy missle over their air neither will Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, or the other half a dozen countries that it would have to pass through. They wouldn't let it drive there either.
Shipping by ocean is out because America, Israel, and other allies countries control the shipping straits in and out of Iran