North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of a 'high-thrust solid-fuel motor' for a new strategic weapon, state media reported Friday, a development that could allow him to possess a more mobile, harder-to-detect arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach the mainland U.S.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of a "high-thrust solid-fuel motor" for a new strategic weapon, state media reported Friday, a development that could allow him to possess a more mobile, harder-to-detect arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach the mainland U.S.
North Korea is likely referring to a solid-fueled ICBM, which is among an array of high-tech weapons systems that Kim vowed to introduce during a major ruling Workers' Party conference early last year. Other weapons systems Kim promised to manufacture include a multi-warhead missile, underwater-launched nuclear missiles and spy satellites.
"We'd been expecting a test of this kind for a while. Large-diameter, solid propellant rocket motors will enable North Korea to deploy larger submarine-launched missiles and, more importantly, more survivable and responsive intercontinental-range ballistic missiles," said Ankit Panda, an expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
KCNA said Thursday's test was meant to verify specific technical features of the motor based on "the thrust vector controlling technology" and that the test showed all the technical indices proved its reliability and stability. "Testing a gimbaled nozzle could therefore represent an important technological waypoint toward North Korea's stated goal of a solid motor ICBM," Dempsey said. "However what other technical challenges remain and how far away a flight test of such a system is remains unknown."
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