Yemen Claims Missile Attack on Saudi Targets

Yemen rebels are telling their friends they fired a Burkan 2-H missile into Saudi Arabia, landing somewhere near the airport.  Janes says the Saudis claim to have shot down missiles on 17 and 20 March.  They have made this claim before, as the reference shows, but I kind of wonder where all this missile technology is coming from since Yemen is not exactly like North Korea in its development of missiles.  There is a hint of their direction in this strategy:  build missiles that can hit your enemies.  With Saudi aircraft bombing them almost every day, we can figure they are enemies.
The Chinese have been avoiding any responsibility for what happens in the Middle East by funding weapons development in the countries that want and need it.  They make AK=47s a number of places and other things that make war.  Missiles too.    

But a number of articles on this subject lay claim to a belief that this is part of a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, a religious war of sorts.  I think their might be a little more to it than that.    

Not too many countries fire ballistic missiles at one another.  They usually fire smaller, less capable, things that are not very accurate or powerful.  The kind of missiles we are talking about here are not very accurate and it would be easy for one of them to hit a school or hospital, rather than their intended target.  Most terrorist organizations find that leads to recruiting problems and more hostile enemies than they want to have.  Ask ISIS about that one.  

But one small thing got my attention in that article about Yemen’s missiles.  It was the idea that threatening your adversaries with missiles is something they are trying to promote.  They didn’t get that idea in school in Yemen.  There is a lot going on in this war that the world is ignoring, probably to keep the peace with Iran.  Ships from Iran are being intercepted.  Missile technology continues to improve in a country that has missile technology it got from other countries - not likely from Europe or the United States.  Iran and North Korea have been working together on nuclear programs, and Iran attended at least one of North Korea’s nuclear tests.  I don’t think that was what we had in mind with the Iranian nuclear deal, but some of the countries involved are looking the other way - and changing the subject as fast as they can.