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South Korea says North needs more time to master solid-fuel ICBM technology
South Korea’s defense ministry said on Friday that North Korea needed more time and effort to master its solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) technology.
North Korea said on Friday it had tested a new solid-fuel ICBM, the Hwasong-18, to “radically promote” the country’s nuclear counterattack capability.
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Leader Kim Jong Un guided the test, and warned it would make enemies “experience a clearer security crisis, and constantly strike extreme uneasiness and horror into them by taking fatal and offensive counter-actions until they abandon their senseless thinking and reckless acts”.
North Korea has criticized recent US-South Korean joint military exercises as escalating tensions, and has stepped up weapons tests in recent months.
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