North Korean state media has now confirmed that its latest test launch was, in fact, one of the nation's advanced Hwasong-18 ICBMs.
, has accused Washington of escalating tensions by deploying submarines and bombers to the Korean peninsula and engaging in nuclear war planning with South Korean allies. According to the KCNA, this military security situation has reached a phase of the nuclear crisis that goes "beyond the Cold War era.
According to a report by Ankit Panda, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace based in the US, it is impressive that North Korea's Hwasong-18 missile tests have been successful despite their lack of experience with other large, multi-stage solid-propellant missiles.
Photos released by KCNA showed the Hwasong-18 missile being launched from a transporter erector launcher mounted on a multi-wheeled vehicle designed to enable missiles fired from unpredictable locations.
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