North Korea's New Solid-Fuel ICBM Sparks Fear and Evacuations in Japan
TL;DR
North Korea has tested a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Hwasong-18, which is the country's first use of solid propellants in an intermediate-range or intercontinental ballistic missile. The missile was fired from near Pyongyang and flew about 1,000 km before landing in waters east of North Korea. Leader Kim Jong Un guided the test and warned it would make enemies "experience a clearer security crisis, and constantly strike extreme uneasiness and horror into them by taking fatal and offensive counter-actions until they abandon their senseless thinking and reckless acts".
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