Despite international protests, North Korea has continued its series of missile tests. As the state news agency KCNA reported Thursday, ruler Kim Jong UN witnessed the launch of two long-range cruise missiles on Wednesday and was very pleased.
The two cruise missiles were launched from the western province of South Pyongan toward the Yellow Sea and, after a flight duration of 10,234 seconds, they accurately reached their targets 2,000 kilometers away. Kim Jong Un spoke of a “clear warning to the enemies”, but without mentioning it specifically.
According to the KCNA, the missile launch was intended to test the “rapid response capability of the nuclear force.” However, experts doubt that the missiles fired on Wednesday are technically capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
Nuclear dummy warheads in action
The North Korean military has been conducting missile tests at an unusually high frequency since late September. According to the government itself, this should also simulate the shelling of South Korean airports with tactical nuclear weapons. The weapons tests, which Kim personally supervised, used fake warheads.
Early this month, Pyongyang also launched a medium-range missile over the Japanese archipelago for the first time in five years. The last time North Korea launched a missile over Japan in 2017, the country conducted a nuclear weapons test a few days later. Experts predict the country could conduct its first nuclear test since 2017 in the coming weeks.
UN resolutions prohibit North Korea from testing ballistic missiles of any range, which, depending on the design, can also carry a nuclear warhead.
Source: Krone
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