{"id":391,"date":"2021-09-13T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2021-09-14T09:41:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T09:41:52","slug":"north-korea-tests-new-long-range-cruise-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/news\/north-korea-tests-new-long-range-cruise-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea tests new long-range cruise missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Pyongyang successfully test-fires its cruise missile over weekend, state-run media says<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ANKARA, September 13, (AA): North Korea has carried out a successful test of its new long-range cruise missile over the weekend, state-run media reported on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Korean Central News Agency in a statement said the country&#8217;s Academy of Defense Science successfully test-fired a new type of long-range cruise missile on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The launched long-range cruise missiles traveled for 7,580 seconds (126 minutes) along an oval and pattern-8 flight orbits in the air above the territorial land and waters of the DPRK (Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea) and hit targets 1,500 km (932 miles) away,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest missile test came after the last month&#8217;s US-South Korea joint military exercises opposed by Pyongyang, which termed them &#8220;a threat to their security.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The joint military drills came a month after North Korea and South Korea restored cross-border communication lines that were cut off by Pyongyang in June last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>North Korea severed communication with South Korea and also blew up an inter-Korean liaison office along the border in June 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in January, just hours after US President Joe Biden took office, Pyongyang conducted a cruise missile test while later in March North Korea again tested a new tactical short-range ballistic missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reacting to the North Korean move, Biden warned there would be \u201cresponses\u201d if North Korea continues with such escalations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, North Korea said Washington might face &#8220;undesirable happenings&#8221; if it continues its provocations and &#8220;habitual hostility&#8221; against Pyongyang.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang successfully test-fires its cruise missile over weekend, state-run media says ANKARA, September 13, (AA): North Korea has carried out a successful test of its new long-range cruise missile over the weekend, state-run media reported on Monday. The Korean Central News Agency in a statement said the country&#8217;s Academy of Defense Science successfully test-fired a [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,73,6],"tags":[114,112,113],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security","category-world","tag-cruise-missile","tag-north-korea","tag-pyongyang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}