NKorea test-fires new 'long-range cruise missile': KCNA

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The test launches took place on both Saturday and Sunday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has steadfastly pursued nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes despite international sanctions

The missiles travelled for 7,580 seconds along "oval and pattern-8 flight orbits" above North Korea and its territorial waters, and hit targets 1,500 kilometres away, KCNA said. The Pentagon did not immediately reply to a request for comment about the reported test launches, which came just a few days after a scaled-back parade in Pyongyang to mark the 73rd anniversary of the country's founding.

But the impoverished North has never shown any indication it would be willing to surrender its nuclear arsenal, and has rebuffed South Korean efforts to revive dialogue.

 

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