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North Korea announced that it had successfully test-fired a new long-range cruise missile last weekend. It is said that a missile that flew 1,500 km hit the target, but there is a controversy over whether the South Korean military has failed to detect it.



This is Kim Tae-hoon, a defense reporter specializing in defense.



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This is a photo of our Hyunmoo-3C, a cruise missile similar in shape to the US Tomahawk, soaring from a mobile launch vehicle.



North Korea's Rodong Sinmun released this photo and said that it successfully conducted a test launch of a newly developed long-range cruise missile yesterday (12th) and the day before.



It is said that it hit a target 1,500 km away in 7,580 seconds and 2 hours on an elliptical or figure 8 flight orbit.



[Chosun Central TV: Flight maneuverability and accuracy of late-guided hitting by combined-guided combined method satisfied all design requirements.] It



is known that Kim Jong-un did not attend the fourth armed demonstration this year.



The South Korean government and military did not disclose the fact of the launch before the North Korean announcement, raising controversy over whether the detection in advance had failed.



[Kim Jun-rak/Director of Joint Chiefs of Staff: Our military is analyzing under close cooperation between South Korea and the US intelligence authorities.] A



high-ranking military official said in a phone call with SBS, "We detected and monitored several signs of launch in advance." "Everything that directly threatens us is It can be detected,” he said.



It is said that the missile was launched from inland North Korea and flew at a low altitude toward the East Sea, so the South Korean and US military authorities had a hard time finding it precisely.



While the US and Japan criticized it as "threatening the peace and stability of neighboring countries and the international community," Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong said that North Korea's missile launch shows the need to resume dialogue.



Following the meeting of the chief representatives of North Korea and Japan held in Tokyo today, it is expected that discussions on the launch of cruise missiles will be held at the meeting of the chief representatives of the Republic of Korea, the United States and Japan tomorrow.



(Video editing: Park Ki-duk, CG: Lee Jong-jeong)



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