| Name | Stages | Propellant | Range (km) | IOC | Inventory | Type | Body Dia. (m) | Comments |
| Scud-B | 1 | liquid | 280-330 | 1981 | 100? | SRBM | 0.885 | |
| Hwasong-5 | 1 | liquid | 280-330 | 1984 | 150? | SRBM | 0.885 | Derivative of Scud-B |
| Hwasong-6 | 1 | liquid | 500-700 | 1989 | 250? | SRBM | 0.885 | Derivative of Scud-C |
| No-dong | 1 | liquid | 1,350-1,500 | 1999 | 12-36 | MRBM | 1.3 | Also flown by Iran (Shahab-3) and Pakistan (Ghauri II) |
| Taep'o-dong-1 Paeutudan-1 | 2 | liquid | 2,000-2,200 | 2000 | 0 | MRBM | 1.3 | Indigenously developed system with performance similar to the Soviet SS-4 |
| NKSL-1/Taep'o-dong-1 | 3 | liquid + solid | 2,200-2,672 or 2,200-2,896 |
1998 (ILC) |
0 | M/IRBM | 1.3 | Satellite launch variant of the Taep'o-dong-1. Basis for the design of Iran's Shahab-4 |
| Taep'o-dong-2 | 2 | liquid | 3,500-3,750 6,400-6,700 7,000 8,000-12,000 |
N/A | 0 | LRICBM LRICBM LRICBM FRICBM |
2.2 | This is a hypothetical advance on the Taep'o-dong-1. North Korea is not believed to currently possess a functional version of this missile, but both North Korea and Iran (Shahab-5) are believed to be working towards a missile with these capabilities. |
| NKSL-X-2/Taep'o-dong-2 | 3 | liquid + solid | 4,000-4,300 | N/A (ILC) |
0 | LRICBM | 2.2 | This is a satellite launch variant of the hypothetical Taep'o-dong-2 model that may be under development. Basis for the design of Iran's Shahab-6. It would probably have a similar performance to the Soviet SS-5 |
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NOTES:
SRBM - Short Range Ballistic Missile < 1,000 km
MRBM - Medium Range Ballistic Missile 1,000-2,500 km
IRBM - Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile 2,500-3,500 km
LRICBM - Limited Range Intercontinental Ballistic Missile 3,500-8,000 km
Many of the ranges suggested for the yet-to-fly missile systems are based on mathematical models relying on what little data has been made public. The large ranges suggested by some of these studies do not necessarily imply likely ranges for an armed missile in the near future, rather they often attempt to extrapolate a maximum possible range for a given design, so as to come up with a worst-case scenario.
