BREAKING: North Korea carried out successful tests of a new long-range cruise missile over the weekend, state media says.
carried out successful tests of a new long-range cruise missile over the weekend, state media said on Monday, seen by analysts as possibly the country's first such weapon with a nuclear capability.
This combination of photos provided by the North Korean government on Monday shows long-range cruise missiles tests held on Sept. 11-12, 2021, at an undisclosed location in North Korea."This would be the first cruise missile in North Korea to be explicitly designated a 'strategic' role," said Ankit Panda, a senior fellow at the U.S.-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace."This is a common euphemism for nuclear-capable system.
The U.S. military's Indo-Pacific Command said it was aware of the reports and was coordinating with its allies and partners.Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, ran photos of the new cruise missile flying and being fired from a transporter-erector-launcher. The unveiling of the test came a day before chief nuclear negotiators from the United States, South Korea and Japan meet in Tokyo to explore ways to break the standoff with North Korea.
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