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North Korea Test Fires Cruise Missile, First Since March

Monday 13 September 2021
North Korea Test Fires Cruise Missile, First Since March

Alwaght- North Korea conducted successful tests of a new long-range cruise missile inside its own territorial waters, state media outlet KCNA reported on Monday.

The missiles deployed during the test flew 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) before hitting their designated targets, the agency said of the development that had apparently taken place over the previous two days.

Last time, the country performed one such test back in March, flying a new tactical short-range ballistic missile.

The test provides “strategic significance of possessing another effective deterrence means for more reliably guaranteeing the security of our state and strongly containing the military maneuvers of the hostile forces,” the news agency said.

‘Five-year defense plan’

It took the country two years to develop the projectile, the KCNA said.

“In this course, detailed tests of missile parts, scores of engine ground thrust tests, various flight tests, control and guidance tests, warhead power tests etc. were conducted with success,” it added.

The agency called the weapon a key element in a five-year plan outlined in January to further advance the nuclear-armed country’s defense science and arsenals.

The developments concerning the test came amid continued deadlock between the North and the United States, which has been exhausting its sanctions machine aimed at supposedly denuclearizing the North.

While mounting the pressure, Washington has never displayed any willingness to relax the economic bans to offer Pyongyang any incentive to de-escalate its nuclear weapons program.

The two sides held unprecedented talks under former US president Donald Trump.

Washington, however, blew what Pyongyang called, “a golden opportunity” at fixing its age-old tensions with North Korea by refusing to take any steps towards ending its economic war.

 

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