North Korea Confirms South Korea's Claim, Tests New Strategic Cruise Missile 'Pulhwasal-3-31'
Date
1/24/2024 11:00:54 PM
(MENAFN- Live Mint) "North Korea said it tested its new strategic cruise missile on Wednesday, state media KCNA reported on Thursday, confirming what the South Korean military said the day before missile dubbed \"Pulhwasal-3-31\" is currently under development and the test-firing had no impact on the security of neighboring countries, the state media said, adding it had \"nothing\" to do with the regional situation Read: North Korea's Kim says, if US and South Korea opt 'for military confrontation... our army should deal a deadly blow'The test was also part of the process of updating the country's weapon system, the report said citing The Missile Administration Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Wednesday that the North had fired multiple cruise missiles towards the sea off its west coast at around 7 a.m. (2200 GMT on Tuesday) while Seoul's defence minister, Shin Won-sik, condemned the launches as a serious threat to his country Read: 'Mistake that we should no longer make': N. Korea's Kim Jong Un on seeking reunification with S. Korea\"Strategic\" typically refers to nuclear-capable weapons Korea carried out its first test of a cruise missile with possible nuclear strike capabilities in September 2021 Korea's cruise missiles usually generate less interest than ballistic missiles because they are not explicitly banned by any U.N. Nations Security Council resolutions Read: North Korea accuses US, South Korea of pushing Korean peninsula towards nuclear war at UNGABut analysts have said intermediate-range, land-attack cruise missiles were no less a threat than ballistic missiles and are a serious capability for North Korea missiles and short-range ballistic missiles that can be armed with either conventional or nuclear bombs are seen as particularly destabilising in the event of conflict as it can be unclear which kind of warhead they are carrying.
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