North Korea not telling the whole truth about latest ICBM test, South Korean official says
CNN
North Korea's launch last week of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), reported to be its most formidable yet, may have been a less advanced weapon than previously believed, according to a South Korean military official.
The official, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, said South Korean and US analysis of the March 24 launch of what North Korea claimed was a new Hwasong-17 ICBM, was in actual fact the older and slightly smaller Hwasong-15 -- an ICBM last tested by Pyongyang in 2017.
Several missile experts have since reached a similar conclusion, but they caution the significance of last week's successful ICBM launch -- North Korea's first in more than four years -- should not be discounted, pointing out the test still demonstrated a weapon with the theoretical ability to hit all of the continental United States.
