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North Korea tests military assets including ballistic missile, KCNA reports
KCNA said the tests verified cluster-warhead performance and included anti-aircraft and electromagnetic systems as North Korea seeks to expand its strategic forces.
- North Korea tested an electromagnetic weapon system, carbon fiber bombs, a mobile short-range anti-aircraft missile system, and a tactical ballistic missile's cluster bomb warhead.
- The tactical ballistic missile named Hwasongpho-11 Ka with a cluster bomb warhead can "reduce to ashes any target" covering an area of up to 17 acres, according to North Korea's state media KCNA.
- South Korea convened an emergency security meeting and urged North Korea to end such weapons tests, which came amid heightened geopolitical tensions.
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The military escalation in the Korean peninsula between 8 and 9 April 2026 reached a critical threshold following the umpteenth series of massive and technologically diversified missile launches by Pyongyang
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