North Korea tested a strategic cruise missile on Saturday, official media KCNA Reported on Sunday.
According to the report, the country’s leader Kim Jong Un overseed the test, calling it a test fire of a “major weapons system”.
The strategic cruise missile that hit the surface from the underwater set a distance of 1500 km and flew between 7507 and 7511 seconds before hitting its target, KCNA Reported
In a separate KCNA In a report on Sunday, the North Korean Foreign Ministry vowed to “strongly retaliate” against the United States as long as Washington “refuses” the sovereignty of Pyongyang.
The ministry said in a statement that military alliances and joint exercises between South Korea and the United States are responsible for the growing tensions in the region. KCNA.
The statement comes at a time when US President Donald Trump said in an interview Thursday that he would re -contact the two again after Trump became a working relationship between the two.
Referring to Kim, sources of North Korean combat detectives were “being completed well”, while the leader also pledged to continue efforts to strengthen the army.
“Kim Jong -un confirmed that the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) will always make strict efforts … on the future of more powerful military force in the future, its important mission and duty to defend lasting peace and stability. To pay, “Read the statement.
In a statement at the end of the day, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said that North Korea fired several cruise missiles from inward areas on Saturday evening at 4 pm.
The report said that the changing missile experience is part of plans to enhance national defense capabilities against potential enemies in accordance with regional security conditions.
Earlier this month, North Korean state media also reported that Kim monitored the successful experiment of a new hypersonic ballistic missile that hit a mid -range.
