(Seoul) North Korea carried out a hypersonic missile test fire, the official North Korean agency KCNA reported Thursday, the first such test by Pyongyang this year.
The missile was fired on Wednesday and carried a “hypersonic warhead” that “accurately hit a target 700 km away,” according to KCNA.
This is the second time North Korea has reported firing a hypersonic missile, a sophisticated weapon that attests to advances by the North Korean defense industry.
On Wednesday, South Korea and Japan detected Pyongyang firing an unidentified projectile, believed to be a ballistic missile, in the sea to the east of the peninsula (Sea of Japan, or East Sea according to the ‘Korean name).
The United States condemned this shooting which according to them “violates several UN Security Council resolutions and poses a threat to North Korea’s neighbors and the international community”.