Seoul, Dec. 16 (BNA): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the testing of a “high-propellant solid fuel engine” for a new strategic weapon, state media reported Friday, a development that could allow him to have a more mobile arsenal of hard-to-detect intercontinental ballistic missiles. .
The official Korean Central News Agency reported that Thursday’s “steady launch test” of a rocket engine at a missile launch facility in the northwest of the country was the first of its kind in North Korea.
It said the test provided “a definite scientific-technical guarantee for the development of another strategic weapon system of the new type.” , according to AP reports,
The fuel in solid-propellant missiles is already loaded inside, which helps shorten launch readiness times, increases the weapon’s mobility, and makes it harder for outside parties to detect what’s going on before liftoff.
The KCNA said Thursday’s test was aimed at checking the specific technical features of the engine based on “thrust vector control technology” and that the test showed that all technical indicators proved reliable and stable.
Some analysts, after examining photos sent by North Korea of the test, said the technology indicated the ability to allow missiles to steer directions by unscrewing exhaust nozzles.
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