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| Kim Jong Un successfully tests his first hypersonic IRBM missile days after vowing to annihilate South Korea |
| 2024-01-16 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets news] Kim Jong Un successfully test-fired his first hypersonic IRBM missile over the weekend, Pyongyang said, days after vowing to annihilate South Korea. The launch of the new ballistic missile - tipped with a hypersonic manoeuvrable warhead - is North Korea's latest breakthrough in its pursuit of advanced weaponry to threaten South Korean and US targets. The launch, Pyongyang's first known weapons test this year and its first ever test of a solid-fuel hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), was detected by Seoul's military Sunday afternoon. A short report in the official Korean Central News Agency said that the solid-fuel IRMB was 'loaded with a hypersonic manoeuvrable controlled warhead'. The test was meant to verify 'the gliding and manoeuvring characteristics' of the warhead and the 'reliability of newly developed multi-stage high-thrust solid-fuel engines', KCNA said. |
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