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December 14, 2019 North Korea conducted another "crucial test" on the Sohae satellite launch site. State media reports, while the nuclear negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington remain blocked with a forthcoming deadline."Another crucial test was successfully conducted at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground from 10:41 pm to 10:48 pm on December 13," a spokesman for the National Academy of Defense Science in the North said in a statement to the official news agency. KCNA. The "research successes" will be "applied to further strengthen North Korea's reliable strategic nuclear deterrent," the spokesman added.
The announcement has matured while Pyongyang continues to press on the US administration for a breakthrough negotiation in view of the expired end-of-year deadline which, in the absence of novelty, the leader Kim Jong-un could take different kinds of initiatives on the voluntary moratorium on nuclear and missile tests.
No details were released on the test, in line with what happened a few days ago when, still in Sohae, the Academy held an unspecified "very important" experiment that is believed to have been related to a new solid fuel engine to increase the reliability of the long-range vectors.