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North Korea said it had launched the second longest-ranged Hwaseong-15 ballistic missile.

This image, taken on February 18, 2023 and released by North Korea’s Central News Agency (KCNA) on February 19, 2023, shows test launches of the Hwaseong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at Pyongyang International Airport. | Fountain: AFP | Photographer: STRINGER / KCNA VIA KNS

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North Korean media announced today that an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launched by the regime on Saturday was hwaseong-15the missile with the second longest potential range in its arsenal, which it first tested in 2017.

The North Korean military carried out a “sudden launch” of a missile that fired at a very steep angle, according to the KCNA.

He Main Missile DirectorateHe was responsible for launching a rocket from Sunan International Airport in Pyongyang, the state information agency explains.

The trial, held around 5:22 p.m. local time on Saturday (8:22 a.m. GMT), “was arranged abruptly without prior notice” based on “an emergency order issued in the early hours of February 18.”

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According to the KCNA, “the maneuver was organized without prior notice” and personally sanctioned by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un | Fountain: AFP | Photographer: STRINGER / KCNA VIA KNS

Projectile data

According to the TsTAK, the projectile traveled 989 kilometers during the flight. 4015 seconds (1 hour and six minutes) and peaked at 5,768.5 km, data that is consistent with data released on Saturday by the South Korean and Japanese armies.

Minister of Defense of Japan Yasukazu Hamadapointed out on Saturday that a rocket launched along a normal trajectory could travel several 14000 kilometers, enough to get to any region of the earth, with the exception of South America.

North Korea has only tested the Hwasong-15 once so far; This was in November 2017, in the midst of an escalation of verbal threats between Pyongyang and the then US president. Donald Trump.

A North Korean news agency text released today claims that “military threats” from South Korea and the United States are “becoming so serious that they cannot be ignored.”

Reply from North Korea

On Friday Pyongyang threatened with an “unprecedented” response to the annual spring military exercises that began to end in March Seoul And Washington and what the regime called “preparation for an aggressive war”.

In addition, next week, the South Korean and US military will hold a command-and-staff exercise at the Pentagon simulating a nuclear attack by the regime.

Kim Jong Un’s sister replied

In another statement released today also CTAC and signed by the sister of the North Korean leader, kim yo jung, confident that Pyongyang will activate a “very powerful and overwhelming” response to any hostile actions of the allies.

Sister Kim Chen In the text states that USA “You must stop all your actions that pose a threat to our state security, and stop defaming the dignity of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (the official name of the country) always think about their own security in the future.

Last year, North Korea conducted a record number of missile launches, close to fifty, in many cases in response to joint allied maneuvers and the deployment of US strategic installations on the peninsula.

(EFE)

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Saturday’s surprise launch was “clear proof” of the credibility of North Korea’s “strong nuclear deterrent,” KCNA said. | Fountain: AFP | Photographer: Anthony Wallace


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