North Korea tests new nuclear rocket with a long flight time

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Von: NAG Redaktion

Nordkorea hat nach eigenen Angaben erfolgreich eine neue Interkontinentalrakete getestet. Der Raketentest fand am Mittwoch statt und es handelte sich dabei um eine neuartige Langstreckenrakete mit Feststoffantrieb, wie die staatlichen Medien Nordkoreas berichten. Demnach flog die Rakete namens Hwasong-18 über 74 Minuten in der Luft, legte eine Strecke von 1001 Kilometern zurück und erreichte eine maximale Höhe von 6648 Kilometern, bevor sie ins Japanische Meer stürzte. Dies war die bisher längste Flugzeit einer nordkoreanischen Rakete. Die Hwasong-18 wurde erstmals im April zu Test- und Propagandazwecken eingesetzt. Sie ist Nordkoreas erste Interkontinentalrakete mit Feststoffantrieb. Raketen mit Feststoffantrieb sind einfacher zu transportieren …
According to North Korea, it has successfully tested a new intercontinental rocket. The rocket test took place on Wednesday and it was a new long -range rocket with a solid drive, as the state media of North Korea report. According to this, the rocket called Hwasong-18 flew in the air for over 74 minutes, covered a distance of 1001 kilometers and reached a maximum height of 6648 kilometers before falling into the Japanese sea. This was the longest flight time of a North Korean rocket. The Hwasong-18 was first used for test and propaganda purposes in April. It is North Korea's first intercontinental rocket with solid drive. Rakets with solid drive are easier to transport ... (Symbolbild/MB)

North Korea has successfully tested a new intercontinental rocket. The rocket test took place on Wednesday and it was a new long -range rocket with a solid drive, as the state media of North Korea report. According to this, the rocket called Hwasong-18 flew in the air for over 74 minutes, covered a distance of 1001 kilometers and reached a maximum height of 6648 kilometers before falling into the Japanese sea. This was the longest flight time of a North Korean rocket.

The Hwasong-18 was first used for test and propaganda purposes in April. It is North Korea's first intercontinental rocket with solid drive. Rakets with solid drive are easier to transport and store, which makes it more difficult to discover them from the enemy. You can also be prepared faster for the start than liquid fuel missiles.

The start of the rocket was supervised by North Korea's ruler Kim Jong un. The North Korean leadership announced that the "great explosion" of the test shaked the whole planet. Kim also announced that it would start further military offensive as long as the USA and South Korea do not change their policies to North Korea.

The tensions on the Korean peninsula have increased again recently. At the beginning of the week, North Korea had warned the United States with ballistic rockets to South Korea before the shipping of a nuclear-driven submarine and indirectly threatened to shoot American reconnaissance planes. North Korea accuses the USA and South Korea a hostile policy.

North Korea has repeatedly threatened and announced with a military escalation to "exponentially" expand its own nuclear weapon arsenal. This year, too, the country has already tested nuclear weapons -capable rockets after it had carried out an unprecedented series of rocket tests last year.

Both Washington and Seoul have been warning for months that North Korea could carry out a nuclear weapon test in the near future. This would be the first test of this kind since 2017. UN resolutions prohibit North Korea, which is largely isolated internationally, the start of ballistic rockets.