(Adnkronos) – North Korea has announced that it has successfully tested a new “hypersonic missile” intended, according to leader Kim Jong Un, to deter “all rivals” of the country in the Pacific region. The test took place yesterday while US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was visiting South Korea and two weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States. This “intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile” is intended to “gradually strengthen the country’s nuclear deterrent,” said Kim Jong Un, who witnessed the launch with his teenage daughter Ju Ae.
This new weapon “will reliably deter all rivals in the Pacific region who may compromise the security of our state,” he added, quoted by the official North Korean agency Kcna, according to which, for the missile’s engine body it was used a “new carbon fiber compound” and “a new method has been introduced in the flight control and guidance system”.
