North Korea Test-Fires Anti-Aircraft Missile: State Media
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The test follows a series of weapons launches, including one this week that the nuclear-armed nation claims was a hypersonic gliding missile, a potential game-changer as it can fly five times the speed of sound.
North Korea has successfully fired a new anti-aircraft missile, state media said Friday, the latest in a flurry of weapons tests by the nuclear-armed nation.
The anti-aircraft missile had a "remarkable combat performance" and included twin rudder controls and other new technologies, the official Korean Central News Agency said.
A picture in the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed the missile ascending at an angle into the sky from a launch vehicle on Thursday.
It is the latest in a series of tension-raising steps by Pyongyang, which has hitherto been biding its time since the change in US administrations in January.