North Korea Tests Missile 10 Times Faster Than Speed Of Sound

North Korea fired a ballistic missile Tuesday that reached Mach 10, or 10 times the speed of sound, the South Korean military said, less than a week after the secretive state launched what it claimed was a hypersonic weapon.

Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said that North Korea fired the missile at 7:27 a.m. from northern Jagang Province into the sea between Korea and Japan. It flew more than 435 miles and reached a maximum altitude of 37 miles, marking an advance over the projectile launched last week, the JCS said.

North Korea said that its previous test was a hypersonic missile, a claim that South Korea’s military later called “exaggerated.” It is unclear whether Pyongyang has secured the technologies to field a hypersonic weapon, which is highly manoeuvrable and can evade missile defense systems.

Seoul said it was still analyzing Tuesday’s missile but added that it was capable of defending against it.

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