The arms race continues: North Korea has announced a successful experiment with a hypersonic missile
Following reports from surrounding countries, Pyongyang has announced a successful launch of the advanced missile, which is five times faster than the speed of sound. “Accelerates the task of modernizing the army”
North Korean state media reported that the launch of the missile this week was an experiment with a hypersonic weapon system that could move five times the speed of sound, as part of the country’s effort to renew its arsenal.
Launching the Hypersonic Missile (Photo: AP)
The Hypersonic missile launched, according to Reuters, the country’s change attempt since September, landed at sea in Japan, a week after dictator Kim Jong Un held a political conference, where he pledged to increase the country’s military capabilities, and ordered more powerful and sophisticated weapons to be used. Click on regional allies of the United States in order to accept them as a nuclear power.
“The continued success of the Hypersonic missile launch trials has strategic significance in that they are accelerating the mission to modernize the country’s strategic armed force,” the government’s central North Korean news agency reported.
South Korean President Moon Jia In said the experiment conducted by the neighbor from the north was creating tensions in the region, stressing that North Korea should make “sincere efforts for dialogue”.
“If both South and North Korea work together and build trust, then peace will come to us and come one day,” the president said, as reported by Reuters.
North Korean leader (Photo: Getty Images)
North Korea’s supreme leader continues to reject White House proposals to resume diplomatic talks on nuclear weapons, which collapsed in 2019 amid disagreements over the degree of easing of sanctions imposed on the country by the United States. Washington has pledged to resume talks with the totalitarian state “everywhere and yet,” without preconditions.
Despite the tensions created by North Korea with the launch of the missiles, its experiment comes after other powers have done so before, including the United States, China and Russia.
U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall admitted in November that “there is an arms race, not necessarily for the sake of increasing the arsenal – but for the sake of increasing quality. It is a race that has been going on for quite some time, and the Chinese are taking it aggressively.
In October, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Miley, confirmed that the Chinese military had conducted a Hypersonic weapons test that was of great concern to military experts. A vehicle carrying a hypersonic weapon.
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