BySoo-Hyang Choi

andJu-min Park

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https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-says-it-tested-new-solid-fuel-icbm-thursday-kcna-2023-04-13/

• Summary

• Leader Kim Jong Un and family watch missile test
• Test key to deploying missiles faster in war
• South Korea, U.S. and Japan stage military drills

SEOUL, April 14 (Reuters) – North Korea announced on Friday it had tested a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a development set to “radically promote” its forces, which experts said would facilitate missile launches with little warning.

Leader Kim Jong Un guided Thursday’s test, and warned it would make enemies “experience a clearer security crisis, and constantly strike extreme uneasiness and horror into them by taking fatal and offensive counter-actions until they abandon their senseless thinking and reckless acts”, North Korean state media said.

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