Yonhap News Agency
• Woo Jae-yeon
North Korea said it tested a strategic cruise missile fitted with a “dispersal warhead,” assessing flight characteristics for a vertical strike, state media reported. The test followed a recent North Korean cluster-bomb test for ballistic missiles, extending the country’s reported work on warhead types across missile systems.
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North Korea said it tested a strategic cruise missile fitted with a “dispersal warhead,” assessing flight characteristics for a vertical strike, state media reported. The test followed a recent North Korean cluster-bomb test for ballistic missiles, extending the country’s reported work on warhead types across missile systems.
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