North Korea claims it tested ballistic missile with ‘super-large’ warhead

SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korea claimed Thursday that its latest weapons test had been of a tactical ballistic missile capable of carrying a ‘super-large’ warhead, and a strategic cruise missile, state media reported.

Leader Kim Jong Un ‘guided the test-fires’, the official Korean Central News Agency said, of the ‘new-type tactical ballistic missile Hwasongpho-11-Da-4.5 and an improved strategic cruise missile’.

Kim has staged dozens of launches this year, part of a testing spree that experts say could be linked to North Korea’s alleged illicit supplying of weapons to ally Russia for use in Ukraine.

‘The new-type tactical ballistic missile was tipped with a 4.5 tonnage super-large conventional warhead according to design,’ KCNA said.

The North ‘also conducted a test-fire of strategic cruise missile whose performance has been highly upgraded for its combat use,’ it added.

Seoul’s military had described the Wednesday launches as a salvo of short-range ballistic missiles, which it said had flown about 400 kilometres east of the Korean peninsula…”

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