"At nearly the same time as Tuesday’s launch, North Korean Ambassador Kim Song used his speech on the last day of the U.N. General Assembly’s annual high-level meeting to justify his country’s development of a “war deterrent” to defend itself against U.S. threats.
“The possible outbreak of a new war on the Korean Peninsula is contained not because of the U.S.’s mercy on the DPRK, it is because our state is growing a reliable deterrent that can control the hostile forces in an attempted military invasion,” Kim said. "
Evo o raketi, piše Rodong
"Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Korean Workers' Party Central Committee, reported Tuesday (Wednesday local time) that North Korea's Academy of National Defense Science "conducted a test launch of the newly developed hypersonic missile 'Hwasong-8'" in Toyang-ni, Ryongrim County, Chagang Province.
Hypersonic speeds reach or exceed Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, and glide vehicles offer enhanced maneuverability that would mark yet another advancement for nuclear-armed North Korea's growing arsenal of weapons the country argues were purely deterrence purposes.
"In the first test-launch, national defence scientists confirmed the navigational control and stability of the missile in the active section and also its technical specifications including the guiding maneuverability and the gliding flight characteristics of the detached hypersonic gliding warhead," the official Korean Central News Agency reported in an accompanying write-up."
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