carried out a strategic cruise missile test, Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency (KNCA) reported Sunday.
The country’s leader oversaw the test, according to the report. North Korea’s war deterrence means were being “perfected more thoroughly,” KCNA quoted Kim as saying.
The sea-to-surface strategic guided cruise missiles traveled 1,500 kilometers (around 932 miles), KCNA said.
Future of US-North Korea relations
The missile test was the first since kicked off his second term on Monday.
In an interview aired Thursday, Trump said he plans to restore relations with Kim, calling the North Korean leader a “smart guy.” During Trump’s first term in office, .
Meanwhile, in a separate KCNA report on Sunday, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry condemned Washington and Seoul for conducting joint military drills in recent days.
The statement said North Korea “should counter the US with the toughest counteraction” as long as Washington denies Pyongyang’s “sovereignty and security interests.”
Joint military exercises between the US and regularly prompt angry reactions from the North, which accuses Washington and Seoul of practicing for an invasion.
ess/wd (Reuters, AFP)
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