North Korea fired hypersonic missile in message to 'rivals,' Kim Jong Un says (So.Korea, Japan have doubts)

ABC News ^ | 7 January 2025 | David Brennan

[PghBaldy]

LONDON -- North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday claimed a successful test of a new type of intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile, with leader Kim Jong Un touting the weapon as a major military achievement.

[PghBaldy]

Japan and South Korean doubts: https://news.usni.org/2025/01/07/japan-south-korea-doubt-north-korean-hypersonic-missile-claims

[Blurb2350]

Just yesterday South Korean military intelligence detected over 250 missile-launching trucks entering the DMZ.

[PghBaldy]

That seems ominous.

[dfwgator]

Getting in their last licks, before the change in management in DC.

[Blurb2350]

Update: The 250 missile-launcher trucks did not enter the DMZ but moved right up to it. The trucks are loaded with home-grown Hwasong-11D short-range (300km) nuclear-capable ballistic missiles. May be nothing more than Little Kim wanting a bit of attention. Who knows.

[maro]

Or it may be some internal power struggle playing out. KJU is not suicidal.

[bert]

Kim Jong Un is attempting to distract from the real and devastating news.

It is very reliably reported by multiple sources that in the past few days, 3,800 Nork Soldiers were eliminated in one single defeat in Kursk. He shows missiles to hide incompetent and irrelevant dead troops wiped out by superior forces equipped with lap tops and drones

Of course, this fact will be loudly refuted by Freeper Terror supporters of Russia.

[Blurb2350]

Yes, and evidently communication / language problems had something to do with the NK troops being wiped out. In any case, aren’t the Russians using them more or less as cannon fodder anyway?

[bert]

No, like there own troops, the Russians are using the Norks for drone fodder

[Vermont Lt]

If it were hypersonic, it would have registered as such on a ton of military and civilian radar systems all over the pacific.

[ridesthemiles]

WHICH DIRECTION???