North Korean state media has released images purporting to show last week's missile launches -- but it made no mention of the suspected failed launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday.
North Korean state media has released images purporting to show last week’s missile launches with a warning that the so-called “reckless military hysteria” of the United States and its allies is moving the Korean peninsula towards “unstable confrontation.” But it made no mention of the suspected failed launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile Thursday, and the information released was too incomplete for experts to gain any real insight into what, if anything, the tests achieved.
“ICBMs need to reach the speed of Mach 20 or higher for the missile to go to the atmospheric space and travel far using its inertia, but in this test, it is believed that such propulsion didn’t happen,” Park said. Thursday’s launch followed a previous one in May, suspected to be a Hwasong-17, fired on the heels of US President Joe Biden’s first presidential trip to Asia.
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