North Korea Says Thursday Launch Was New "Tactical Guided Projectile"

The firing was supervised by senior official Ri Pyong Chol, the official KCNA news agency reported, citing him as saying the successful test was "of great significance in bolstering up the military power of the country".

North Korea has tested a new "tactical guided projectile" with a solid-fuel engine, state media said Friday after the nuclear-armed country carried out its first substantive provocation since US President Joe Biden's inauguration. The North on Thursday launched two weapons from its east coast, with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga calling them ballistic missiles. Pyongyang is under multiple international sanctions over its weapons programmes, with UN Security Council resolutions banning it from developing ballistic missiles. Biden told reporters that UN resolution 1718 "was violated by those particular missiles that were tested".