North Korea says it successfully test-fired new submarine ballistic missile

Source: The Hill | October 3, 2019 | Tal Axelrod

North Korea on Thursday announced it had successfully tested a new submarine-launched ballistic missile a day after Pyongyang and Washington said nuclear talks would resume.

State media outlet KCNA said leader Kim Jong Un sent “warm congratulations” over the test, which it said occurred Wednesday and was intended to contain “the outside forces’ threats” to North Korea and “further [bolster] up its military muscle for self-defense.”

KCNA confirmed that the SLBM Pukguksong-3 missile was fired “in vertical mode” off the coast of the eastern city of Wonsan, saying the test “had no adverse impact on the security of neighboring countries.”

The State Department said in a statement to The Hill it is calling on Pyongyang to “refrain from provocations” and to remain “engaged in substantive and sustained negotiations” to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula and achieve denuclearization. 

The test flies in the face of United Nations Security Council resolutions prohibiting Pyongyang from using ballistic missile technology, but North Korea rejects them as infringements to its right to self-defense.

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