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As I said, North Korea made a serious test yesterday at the satellite launch site of Dongchang-ri, West Sea.

The trial reporter analyzed what kind of test it was and how North Korea would go in the future.

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North Korea said yesterday that it successfully conducted a critical test at the satellite launch site of the West Sea through a defense talk.

In particular, he stressed that the test results will change their "strategic position once again."

The West Sea satellite launch site, along with the engine test site, will form the Dongchang-ri launch site, where Kim Jong-un promised permanent closure as one of the denuclearization measures at the North-South summit last September.

It is not known what kind of tests North Korea has done.

The mention of 'strategic status' raises the possibility of an entirely new solid engine for the ICBM and a new liquid engine that greatly enhances the performance of the existing Baekdu engine.

[Kim Dong-yeop / Professor, Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University: Solid fuel engines can be fired anywhere and anytime using TEL (Mobile Launch Vehicle), which ensures survival, covertness, and speed.]

Kim led the leaders of the party, Chung and the county on the same day and attended the completion ceremony of Yangdeok Hot Spring Complex.

Yangdeok Onsen is Kim's three major projects, with Samjiyeon-gun and Wonsan Galma Tourist Zone.

It seems to me that North Korea is seeking to find a new path through the development of strategic weapons that have been suspended for some time on the basis of self-help