Posted on 01/05/2022 9:01:58 PM PST by Olog-hai
The North Korean state news agency on Thursday said a missile fired into the sea off the east of the Korean Peninsula was a hypersonic weapon.
It’s Pyongyang’s second reported test of a hypersonic gliding missile to date — after one it claimed in September — and is the first missile launch from North Korea since October.
North Korea’s claim of a successful hypersonic test Wednesday has yet to be independently confirmed.
On Thursday, Japan’s defense minister, Nobuo Kishi, told Japanese media that the missile was not hypersonic, but a “new type of ballistic missile” not launched by the North before.
State news agency KCNA said the missile carried a “hypersonic gliding warhead” that “precisely hit a target 700 kilometers away.”
The Wednesday test “reconfirmed the flight control and stability of the missile in the active-flight stage and assessed the performance of the new lateral movement technique applied to the detached hypersonic gliding warhead”, the agency said. …
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Was that before or after Dear Leader carded an 18 on their golf course.
It was right after he invented to burrito. It was a staffer fleeing the gas not a missile.
Everybody has the “hypersonic” missile - the Russians, the Chinese, now the Norks - can Iran be far behind?
But the US for all its suppose technical prowess can’t get one prototype to work.
So who is lying? The Russians? The Chinese? The Norks? The Iranians? The US? Or are they all truthful as the day is long?
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