Фото: AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon
Rocket launch
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The rocket flew 800 kilometers with a maximum altitude of two thousand kilometers. We are most likely talking about the Hwaseong-12 rocket.
North Korea on Sunday, January 30, launched a ballistic missile medium range, which is 16 times the speed of sound. The agency reports Yonhap with reference to sources.
The maximum speed was 16 Mach numbers. Presumably, we are talking about the Hwaseong-12 missile, which the DPRK authorities tested in 2017.
The rocket flew 800 kilometers with a maximum altitude of two thousand kilometers from the area of the North Korean province of Chagangdo and fell outside the exclusive zone of Japan.
This is the seventh test of the DPRK weapons since the beginning of the year.
Formerly North Korea 5 and 11 January tested missileswhich it called hypersonic, on the 14th two short-range ballistic missiles were launched from a railway missile system, on the 17th North Korea tested two short-range tactical guided missiles, January 25 – cruise missiles, and January 27 – tactical guided missiles ground-to-ground type.
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