(Seoul) North Korea has tested a “very large” warhead designed for a strategic cruise missile, and launched a new type of anti-aircraft missile, state media reported Saturday.
“The (North Korea) Missile Directorate conducted a power test of a very large warhead designed for the ‘Hwasal-1 Ra-3’ strategic cruise missile,” the North’s agency said. Korean KCNA.
Pyongyang also carried out a test launch on Friday afternoon of “a new type of anti-aircraft missile “Pyoljji-1-2” in the West Sea”, also known as the Yellow Sea, added KCNA.
“A certain objective was achieved” thanks to the test, the agency continued without providing further information.
These two tests are part of the “regular activities of the management and the defense science institutes affiliated to it,” indicated the same source.
At the beginning of April, Pyongyang claimed to have tested a new medium-to-long-range hypersonic solid-fuel missile. State media then broadcast a video of its launch under the gaze of North Korean number one Kim Jong-un.
North Korea continues to develop its weapons programs, particularly nuclear, despite the international sanctions to which it is subject.
Since the start of the year, the nuclear-armed country has called South Korea its “main enemy,” closed agencies dedicated to reunification and inter-Korean dialogue, and threatened to go to war over any violation of its territory “even if only by 0.001 millimeter”.