US EditionNorth 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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North Korea this week tested a new cluster warhead mounted on a ballistic missile and a new electromagnetic weapon, the North's state news agency KCNA reported. The North's Academy of Defense Science and Missile Program Administration also tested a carbon bomb and a short-range mobile anti-aircraft missile system.
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State news agency reports tests of several new weapons systems – including highly controversial cluster bombs
North Korea continues to advance its military armaments – and, according to its own statements, presents several new weapons systems. According to the state news agency KCNA, tests with rockets, special sprinkling heads and even an electromagnetic weapon system have been carried out in recent days. According to this report, the country tested, among other things, the warhead of a tactical missile with cluster munitions between Monday and Wednesd…
North Korea has, according to its own statements, tested several new military technologies, including the warhead of a rocket with cluster munitions.
North Korea tested several weapons systems, including ballistic missiles, for three days, intensifying tensions with Seoul and Tokyo. ...
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