The country's rocket authority will launch another rocket of the same type in July.
North Korea said on Monday, July 1, it successfully tested a new tactical ballistic missile capable of carrying an ultra-large warhead weighing 4.5 tons.
The state news agency KCNA reports this, reports Reuters.
The other day, North Korea reported firing two ballistic missiles at North Korea and said the second likely malfunctioned shortly after launch, exploding in flight over the ground. The KCNA report does not specify whether two missiles were launched and refers to a singular projectile.
It states that a test of a new tactical ballistic missile called the Hwasongpho-11 Da-4.5 was carried out with a simulated heavy warhead to test flight stability and accuracy.
It does not specify the nature of the simulated warhead.
“North Korea's missile test report was likely a 'hoax' because one of the two missiles was flying abnormally and appears to have ended up in a field near Pyongyang”,” Colonel Lee Sung-jun.
The country's missile agency will launch another rocket of the same type in July to test the “explosion power” of the ultra-large warhead, KCNA said in a rare disclosure of the missile's future launch plan.
South Korea's military said Monday that the first of two missiles launched by North Korea was the KN-23, which flew about 600 km (373 miles).
Recall that it was previously reported that Kim Jong-in's military crossed the border with South Korea for the third time in a month.
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