{"id":1748,"date":"2021-10-20T09:18:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T09:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2021-10-20T12:26:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T12:26:09","slug":"north-korea-confirms-test-of-new-type-of-submarine-launched-ballistic-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/world\/north-korea-confirms-test-of-new-type-of-submarine-launched-ballistic-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea confirms test of &#8216;new type&#8217; of submarine-launched ballistic missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> New test ramps up pressure ahead of US, South Korea, Japan meeting on possible resumption of dialogue with Pyongyang<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ANKARA, Oct. 20, (AA): North Korea on Wednesday confirmed that it fired a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) a day earlier, the country\u2019s first underwater test-launch since 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The successful test bolsters North Korea\u2019s defense technology and enhances underwater operational capability of its navy, state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported, along with a series of photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said the new type of SLBM has \u201clots of advanced control guidance technologies including flank mobility and gliding skip mobility,\u201d adding that the launch was carried out from \u201cthe same 8.24 Yongung ship\u201d used for North Korea\u2019s first SLBM test in 2016.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>North Korea\u2019s eighth missile test this year and fifth since September comes as Pyongyang pushes back against what it sees as \u201chostile policies\u201d of the US and South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SLBM test-launch was carried out as Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo prepare for a trilateral meeting on North Korea, including a possible resumption of talks and sending humanitarian aid to the country of around 25 million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sung Kim, Washington\u2019s special envoy for North Korea, is also planning to visit Seoul later this week amid signals by US President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration that it is open to resuming talks with Pyongyang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reacting to the latest missile test, South Korea\u2019s President Moon Jae-in said his country will shore up its defense capability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA strong defense capability is always aimed at ensuring peace,\u201d Yonhap News Agency quoted Moon as saying at the opening of a defense exhibition on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Republic of Korea seeks to build a smart and strong armed forces based on state-of-the-art technology,\u201d he added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has also used a similar rationale as Pyongyang continues to defy UN sanctions to conduct missile tests, maintaining that it only aims to deter \u201chostile forces\u201d and does not seek war with Washington or Seoul.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New test ramps up pressure ahead of US, South Korea, Japan meeting on possible resumption of dialogue with Pyongyang ANKARA, Oct. 20, (AA): North Korea on Wednesday confirmed that it fired a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) a day earlier, the country\u2019s first underwater test-launch since 2019. The successful test bolsters North Korea\u2019s defense technology [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[844,112,141,74],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-missile-fire","tag-north-korea","tag-south-korea","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}