Pyongyang says launch tested separation and guidance control of individual mobile warheads to ensure capability of Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicles.
Wednesday's test was the North's first weapons launch since it fired nuclear-capable multiple rocket launchers to simulate a preemptive attack on South Korea almost a month ago. / Photo: AFP
The separated mobile warheads"were guided correctly to the three coordinate targets," and a decoy that separated from the missile was verified by radar, it said. "I had been anticipating a MIRV test for some time now, as this was one of the last remaining items on Kim Jong-un's modernisation wish list from the 8th Party Congress back in January 2021," said Ankit Panda, a senior analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff had said on Wednesday it suspected the weapon launched by North Korea was a solid-fueled hypersonic missile. It said the missile blew up off the North's east coast, scattering fragments in the water.
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