North Korea announced on the 11th that it had succeeded in the final test of a hypersonic missile in the presence of General Secretary Kim Jong-un.
The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Workers' Party of Korea, said that the final test-fire of a hypersonic missile was conducted at the National Defense Science Academy yesterday, and explained that the purpose of this launch was to "finally confirm the overall technical characteristics."
The newspaper said, "The hypersonic glide combat unit (warhead) separated from the missile made a gliding re-jump from the 600 km line," and "it made a strong turning maneuver 240 km from the initial launch azimuth to the target azimuth and hit a target in the waters of 1,000 km." claimed.
The newspaper claimed that the warhead's "superior maneuverability was more clearly confirmed".
If you look at the published photos, the warhead shape is in the same cone shape as when it was launched on the 5th, so it appears to be the same model as at the time.
General Secretary Kim said, "We achieved great success in the hypersonic weapon development sector, which has the most important strategic significance among the five core tasks of the five-year plan for national defense power development presented by the 8th Party Congress," and gave special thanks to scientists and engineers. The newspaper reported that
General Secretary Kim also said that "the struggle to improve the modernity of the military should be further spurred" and "the country's war deterrence power must be remarkably strengthened."
According to the newspaper, General Secretary Kim later invited hypersonic researchers to the headquarters of the Party Central Committee to celebrate and take a commemorative photo.
North Korea fired a projectile into the East Sea from the Jagang Province area around 7:27 a.m. yesterday.
The flight range was over 700 km, the maximum altitude was 60 km, and the maximum speed was detected to be around Mach 10.