North Korea Missile Test: According to official media, North Korea has successfully launched a new tactical ballistic missile that can carry a 4.5-ton “superlarge warhead.”
According to Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the Hwasongpho-11 Da-4.5 missile test was carried out to confirm its flight stability and hit accuracy at the maximum range of 500 km (310 miles) and minimum range of 90 km (55 miles).
The military of South Korea announced the previous day that North Korea had launched two ballistic missiles, the second of which most likely failed shortly after launch and exploded over land.
The KCNA story omitted mentioning the second missile. It also left out details on the kind of simulated warhead, and the launch and landing sites of the missile.
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Unlike past declarations of this sort, North Korea did not publicize the Monday test using photos. Testing its greatest and minimum ranges, the missile appears to have launched twice.
One of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) representatives from South Korea said during a Tuesday news briefing that the test report was most likely a “deception,” since one of them seemed to have failed during the early phases of flight.
The missile’s trajectory, according to Seoul’s military, revealed that there may have been a midair explosion over North Korea, resulting in debris falling on the nation.
JCS spokesman Lee Sung-joon stated, “It is extremely rare for test launches to be conducted inland, and the claim that they succeeded in such a launch is likely to be false.”
According to South Korea’s military, one of the two missiles emerged in a field not far from Pyongyang while flying unusually.
Military researcher Shin Jongwoo, who is based in Seoul, told The Associated Press that there were doubts about the test’s success due to the absence of images.
This group of missiles that the North made is also known as the KN-23 and KN-24 short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM).
Ukrainian officials who have looked through missile debris from Russian launches since December say that the KN-23 is most likely the missile that North Korea gave to Russia and used in the war with Ukraine.
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Russia and North Korea say they don’t trade arms. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un promised “full support and solidarity” for Russia’s war in Ukraine when President Vladimir Putin visited Pyongyang in June. The two countries also signed a treaty that included a plan to protect each other.
According to Times of India, the alleged launch coincides with artillery drills that the South Korean military carried out on Tuesday morning at ranges that are within 5 km (3 miles) of the Military Demarcation Line within the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas.
The North Korean Missile Administration will reportedly test the “explosion power” of the superlarge warhead with another launch of the same missile type this month, according to KCNA, in an uncommon disclosure of a future missile launch strategy.
