Cruise missiles to nukes: North Korea's arsenal

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The nuclear-armed country has also threatened to restart testing of long-range and nuclear weapons, blaming"hostile" US policy for forcing its hand.

The nuclear-armed country has also threatened to restart testing of long-range and nuclear weapons, blaming"hostile" US policy for forcing its hand.

Intermediate-range ballistic missiles , which are rocket-propelled for the first stage of flight, have a range of about 3,000km-5,500km.Pyongyang first successfully tested the Hwasong-12 in May 2017. North Korea's main ICBM is called the Hwasong-15, a missile capable of reaching Alaska on the US continental mainland.

But Pyongyang's exact sea-based launch capabilities remain unclear. Previous tests were carried out from older vessels, including from a submerged platform, rather than an actual submarine.The test firing of a hypersonic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea on Jan 5, 2022. Only five countries - China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States - are officially recognised as possessing nuclear weapons and are members of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons .

 

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