North Korea tests strategic cruise missiles
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Vanguard
North Korea has conducted a test of strategic cruise missiles, the official KCNA news agency reported. It said the test improved the missiles' terminal-strike capability, amid persistent tensions with South Korea, according to Vanguard.
North Korea conducted a test of strategic cruise missiles on Monday, according to the official North Korean news agency KCNA. The agency said one of the missiles was equipped with a dispersal warhead capable, it said, of covering an area of five to six hectares.
KCNA said the test aimed to improve the missile's ability to hit its target after a terminal manoeuvre. A North Korean official described the tests as a means of defending the country and deterring external threats.
The test took place the day after a North Korean test of cluster-bomb warheads. Seoul did not announce the cruise-missile launch. The South Korean military had said it was coordinating with the United States on a detailed analysis of the previous test's characteristics, according to its spokesperson Jang Do-young.
North Korean cruise-missile tests are not prohibited by UN Security Council sanctions, unlike ballistic-missile launches. North Korea had also recently tested attack drones, a new precision-guided torpedo and an intermediate-range hypersonic missile.
