North Korean state media revealed that on Wednesday, leader Kim Jong Un oversaw testing of a new weapon of some sort that is planned to be added into the North Korean arsenal. The report was extremely vague on what this weapon was.
The report referred to the weapon as a “tactical” weapon, saying it has a “peculiar mode of guiding flight” and a “powerful warhead.” They did not further elaborate beyond saying it would increase the army’s combat power.
This implies a short-range missile of some sort with a novel guidance
system, at least novel from the North Korean point of view. The talk of a
powerful warhead may suggest an advancement in explosives, or the use
of some sort of fuel air bomb that causes particularly high amounts of
damage.
It is exceedingly unlikely, though not specifically ruled out by what is
known so far, that this is nuclear-related. North Korea’s ability to
produce deliverable nuclear warheads is very new, and it is virtually
certain they lack the miniaturization technology needed to produce
tactical-level nuclear arms. North Korea also has never tested any such
sort of warhead.
Skip to content
Original and up-to-date news