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North Korea confirmed this Wednesday that the strategic cruise missiles it launched the day before are Hwasal-2 projectiles, which it tested to improve its rapid counterattack capacity, according to state media.
“The exercise helped control the player’s quick counterattack posture. Korean People’s Army (KPA) and improve your ability to strategic attack It is “It has had no adverse effect on the security of neighboring countries.”North Korean state agency KCNA reported today.
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The agency confirmed that the missiles launched on Tuesday were a second version of the cruise missiles Hwasal (‘Arrow’), although they did not provide further details on the number of projectiles fired or the distance they traveled.
The South Korean military reported Tuesday that North Korea played for yellow sea (called sea of West in both Koreas) several cruise projectiles that he was unable to accurately identify, in what was the third test of this type in the last week.
Cruise Missile Tests Added to Tuesday’s Test Pulhwasal-3-31 (‘Burning Arrow-3-31′) held on January 24th and 28th in the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan (East Sea in both Koreas), respectively.
North Korea tests cruise missiles for the first time Hwasal-1 and Hwasal-2 in September 2021 and January 2022 and has since launched several of these projectiles which are presumed to have a flight range of 1,500 kilometers and 2,000 kilometers, respectively.
Experts believe that Pulhwasal could be a version of Hwasal and that the number 31 would refer to the fact that they can carry the Hwasan-31 tactical nuclear warhead (‘Volcano-31′), whose existence was first revealed last year.
Although the cruise missile is launched by North Korea are not punished by the sanctions of the UNthe fact that they fly at low altitude and enjoy maneuverability makes them a difficult weapon to intercept.
These latest tests take place in a context of great tension with South Korea, after that Kim Jong Un recently declared that the neighboring state is “the main enemy” and that reconciliation between the two countries is impossible and then ordering the destruction of an iconic monument in Pyongyang which extolled a future reunification of the peninsula.
Source: Elcomercio
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