This content was published on 31 January 2022 – 08:18
Seoul, Jan 31 (EFE) .- The North Korean media today distributed images allegedly taken from the intermediate-range missile (IRBM) that it launched the day before, in what has been its largest demonstration of this type of weaponry since 2017 .
The photographs, published on Monday by the North Korean daily Rodong and by the state news agency KCNA, show the missile taking off from a mobile launcher, an aerial view of it and two other images in which the Earth can be seen from the perspective of the projectile. .
The latter “were taken from space by a camera installed in the warhead of the missile” and distributed by the North Korean Academy of Defense and Science, said the regime’s propaganda outlet.
North Korea had already distributed photos taken with this same perspective in an earlier launch in May 2017 with another model of intermediate-range missile, the Pukkukksong-2, according to Ankit Panda, a researcher at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in your Twitter account.
The North’s latest weapons test took place with a Hwasong-12 missile and confirmed “the accuracy, safety and effectiveness” of this projectile, according to KCNA.
The projectile traveled 800 kilometers towards the Sea of Japan, called the East Sea in the two Koreas, and would have reached a maximum altitude of 2,000 kilometers without entering the waters of Japan’s exclusive economic zone or reporting damage, as confirmed by the Japanese government. .
In addition to being North Korea’s seventh missile test so far this year, Sunday’s test represents the longest range conducted by the North Korean regime since November 2017, when it launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
The new test, which like others in recent weeks violates the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, increases the fear that Pyongyang will end the moratorium on intercontinental missiles and nuclear tests that had been imposed in the dialogue process for denuclearization. EFE
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