Original title: North Korea successfully test fired a hypersonic missile
Xinhua news agency, Pyongyang, January 6 (reporter Jiang Yaping) - according to a report by the Korean Central News Agency on the 6th, North Korea successfully test fired a hypersonic missile on the 5th.
The report said that the missile newly developed by the North Korean Academy of defense Sciences flew 700 kilometers, successfully hit the set target, and confirmed the reliability of the missile's ampouled missile fuel system in cold climate.
The report also said that the continuous successful launch of hypersonic missiles "is of strategic significance in accelerating the modernization of the national strategic armed forces".
This is North Korea's second test firing of a hypersonic missile after successfully testing a "mars-8" hypersonic missile on September 28 last year.
According to the news released by the South Korean Joint Staff Headquarters on the 5th, North Korea launched an unidentified launcher into the eastern waters of the Korean Peninsula on the same day.
Japan's defense ministry announced on the 5th that North Korea launched suspected ballistic missile objects on the same day. A Japanese government official told the media that the object landed outside Japan's exclusive economic zone.