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North Korea says hypersonic missile launch to modernise weaponry successful

Highlights This is North's first known weapons tests in about two months The launch indicates country will press ahead with plans to build powerful, sophisticated missiles Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party expressed “great satisfaction” at the results Days after leader Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster his military forces despite pandemic-related difficulties, North Korea on Thursday said it …

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Second test of advanced weaponry underlines Pyongyang’s commitment to modernising its military despite UN ban. North Korea has said that Wednesday’s missile test was a hypersonic weapon and that it successfully hit its target. “The successive successes in the test launches in the hypersonic missile sector have strategic significance in that they hasten a task for modernizing strategic armed force …

Pyongyang has been developing its arsenal with denuclearisation talks stalled since 2019. The weapon North Korea fired off its east coast on Tuesday morning was a newly-developed hypersonic missile, state media said, in the latest advance in weaponry for the nuclear-armed nation. The development of the weapon system increases North Korea’s defence capabilities, the Korean Central News Agency said on …

Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile hit ground target more than 350 kilometres away, Russian defence ministry says. Russia has reported another successful test launch of a Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile, a weapon President Vladimir Putin has touted as part of a new generation of missile systems without equal in the world. But some Western experts have questioned how advanced Russia’s new …