KCNA confirms North Korea test-fired new ballistic missile

KCNA said the Hwasong-17 missile, launched from Pyongyang International Airport, flew to a maximum altitude of 6,248.5 km and flew a distance of 1,090 km in 4,052 seconds before hitting its target at sea. According to KCNA, leader Kim Jong Un said the new weapon “will reliably perform its mission and duty as a powerful nuclear war deterrent”.

Meanwhile, the South Korean military estimates that the North Korean missile has a range of up to 6,200 km – further than the last ICBM that North Korea tested in October 2017. According to South Korea’s Foreign Ministry, Foreign Minister Chung Eui-Yong spoke by phone with his US counterpart Antony Blinken about North Korea’s missile test, and the two sides agreed to take “severe responses” to the missile launch. this.