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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) \u2014 North Korea says it successfully test fired newly developed long-range cruise missiles over the weekend, its first known testing activity in months, underscoring how it continues to expand its military capabilities<\/a> amid a stalemate in nuclear negotiations with the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Korean Central News Agency said Monday the cruise missiles, which had been under development for two years, demonstrated an ability to hit targets more than 900 miles away during flight tests on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The North hailed its new missiles as a \u201cstrategic weapon of great significance\u201d that meets leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s call to strengthen the country\u2019s military might<\/a>, implying that they were being developed with an intent to arm them with nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Korean state media published photos of a projectile being fired from a launcher truck and an apparent missile with wings and tail fins traveling in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Korea\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military was analyzing the North Korean launches based on U.S. and South Korean intelligence. The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command<\/a> said it was monitoring the situation with allies and that the North Korean activity reflects a continuing focus on \u201cdeveloping its military program and the threats that poses to its neighbors and the international community.\u201d Japan said it was \u201cextremely concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim during a congress of the ruling Workers\u2019 Party in January doubled down on his pledge to bolster his nuclear deterrent in the face of U.S. sanctions and pressure. He issued a long wish list of new sophisticated assets, including longer-range intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear-powered submarines, spy satellites and tactical nuclear weapons. Kim also said then that his national defense scientists were developing \u201cintermediate-range cruise missiles with the most powerful warheads in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Korea\u2019s weapons tests are meant to build a nuclear and missile program that can stand up to what it claims as U.S. and South Korean hostility, but they are also considered by outside analysts as ways to make its political demands clear to leaders in Washington and Seoul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The North\u2019s resumption of testing activity is likely an attempt at pressuring the Biden administration over the diplomatic freeze after Kim failed to leverage his arsenal for economic benefits during the the presidency of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KCNA\u2019s report of the tests came before Biden\u2019s special representative for North Korea, Sung Kim, was to meet his South Korean and Japanese counterparts in Tokyo on Tuesday to discuss the stalled nuclear diplomacy with North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Korea ended a yearlong pause in ballistic tests in March by firing two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea<\/a>, continuing a tradition of testing new U.S. administrations with weapons demonstrations aimed at measuring Washington\u2019s response and wresting concessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there hadn\u2019t been any known test launches for months after that, as Kim focused national efforts on fending off the coronavirus and salvaging his economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KCNA said the missiles tested over the weekend traveled for 126 minutes \u201calong an oval and pattern-8 flight orbits\u201d above North Korean land and waters before hitting their targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe test launches showed that the technical indices such as the thrust power of the newly developed turbine-blast engine, the missiles\u2019 navigation control and the end guided hit accuracy by the combined guided mode met the requirements of designs. In all, the efficiency and practicality of the weapon system operation was confirmed to be excellent,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appeared that Kim wasn\u2019t in attendance to observe the tests. KCNA said Kim\u2019s top military official, Pak Jong Chon, observed the test-firings and called for the country\u2019s defense scientists to go \u201call out to increase\u201d the North\u2019s military capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said North Korean missiles of such range would pose a \u201cserious threat to the peace and safety of Japan and its surrounding areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are extremely concerned,\u201d Kato said while mentioning Japanese efforts to strengthen its missile defense capabilities. He said Tokyo was working with Washington and Seoul to gather information on North Korea\u2019s latest tests but said there was no immediate indication that the weapons reached inside Japan\u2019s exclusive economic zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim\u2019s powerful sister last month hinted that North Korea was ready to resume weapons testing while issuing a statement berating the United States and South Korea for continuing their joint military exercises, which she said was the \u201cmost vivid expression of U.S. hostile policy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She then said the North would boost its pre-emptive strike capabilities while another senior official threatened unspecified countermeasures that would leave the allies facing a \u201csecurity crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The allies say the drills are defensive in nature, but they have canceled or downsized them in recent years to create space for diplomacy or in response to COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talks between the United States and North Korea have stalled since the collapse of a summit between Trump and Kim in 2019, when the Americans rejected the North\u2019s demand for major sanctions relief in exchange for a partial surrender of its nuclear capabilities. Kim\u2019s government has so far rejected the Biden administration\u2019s overtures for dialogue, demanding that Washington abandon its \u201chostile\u201d policies first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest tests came after Kim threw an unusual parade<\/a> last week in the capital, Pyongyang, that was a marked departure from past militaristic displays, showcasing anti-virus workers in hazmat suits and civil defense organizations involved in industrial work and rebuilding communities destroyed by floods, instead of missiles and other provocative weaponry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experts said the parade was focused on domestic unity as Kim now faces perhaps his toughest test, with North Korea wrestling with U.S.-led economic sanctions over its nuclear weapons and pandemic border closures that are causing further strain on its broken economy, as well as food shortages worsened by floods in recent summers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press writer Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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