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SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 North Korea said Friday its two latest rounds of weapons tests this week<\/a> were successful while vowing to bolster its nuclear \u201cwar deterrent\u201d and speed up the development of more powerful warheads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appeared North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not attend the tests on Tuesday and Thursday, which were detected by the militaries of neighbors South Korea and Japan. But Kim did inspect a munitions factory where workers pledged loyalty to their leader, who \u201csmashes with his bold pluck the challenges of U.S. imperialists and their vassal forces,\u201d state media said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Korea has been ramping up its testing activity in recent months, including six rounds of weapons launches so far in 2022<\/a>, demonstrating its military might amid pandemic-related difficulties and a prolonged freeze in nuclear diplomacy with the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While aggressively expanding his military capabilities despite limited resources, Kim is also reviving Pyongyang\u2019s old playbook of brinkmanship to wrest concessions from Washington, which leads international sanctions over the North\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The North\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency described the two ballistic missiles launched from a coastal area on Thursday as \u201csurface-to-surface tactical guided missile\u201d armed with a conventional warhead and said they accurately struck a sea target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos released by state media suggest the weapons test-fired were a short-range solid-fuel missile it apparently designed after Russia\u2019s Iskander ballistic system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The missile, which North Korea has tested since 2019, could be launched from launcher trucks and trains and is designed for maneuverability and low-altitude flight. It\u2019s seen as a key piece in the country\u2019s expanding arsenal of shorter-range weapons apparently aimed at overwhelming missile defenses in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KCNA said Tuesday\u2019s launches were of a purported long-range cruise missile the North first tested in September. The two missiles flew for more than 2 hours and 35 minutes and demonstrated an ability to strike targets 1,800 kilometers (1,118 miles) away, a performance that underscored their value in \u201cboosting the war deterrence of the country,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The North has described this weapon as \u201cstrategic,\u201d implying that it\u2019s being developed to deliver nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This photo provided by the North Korean government shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches what it says a test launch of a hypersonic missile on Jan. 11, 2022 in North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency\/Korea News Service via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kim had attended a Jan. 11 test-firing of a purported hypersonic missile<\/a> he described as the most significant part of a five-year plan to build up the North\u2019s military force. His wishlist also includes multi-warhead missiles, spy satellites, solid-fuel long-range missiles and submarine-launched nuclear missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KCNA, in its separate report on Kim\u2019s visit to a munitions factory, said the facility was producing a \u201cmajor weapon system.\u201d It didn\u2019t say when he visited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Touring the facility with top officials, including his increasingly powerful sister Kim Yo Jong, Kim Jong Un \u201chighly appreciated\u201d the workers\u2019 efforts to modernize the country\u2019s military and their devotion to defend the ruling Workers\u2019 Party\u2019s revolutionary cause with \u201cpowerful cutting-edge arms,\u201d the KCNA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Korea has described its weapons tests as a rightful exercise of self-defense and threatened stronger action after the Biden administration imposed fresh sanctions following this month\u2019s hypersonic tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a ruling party meeting chaired by Kim last week, senior party members made a veiled threat to resume testing of nuclear explosives and long-range missiles targeting the American homeland, which Kim suspended in 2018 while initiating diplomacy with the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim\u2019s summitry with then-President Donald Trump derailed in 2019 after the Americans rejected North Korea\u2019s demands for major sanctions relief in exchange for a partial surrender of its nuclear capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cha Deok-cheol, spokesman of South Korea\u2019s Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs, said during a briefing that the North\u2019s missile tests \u201cturn the Korean Peninsula\u2019s clock back to the times of tensions and conflict\u201d and the North should halt the launches and return to dialogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some experts say North Korea could dramatically escalate weapons demonstrations after the Winter Olympics, which begin Feb. 4 in China, the North\u2019s main ally and economic lifeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They say Pyongyang\u2019s leadership likely feels it could use a dramatic provocation to move the needle with the Biden administration, which has been preoccupied with bigger adversaries including China and Russia. The Biden administration has offered open-ended talks but showed no willingness to ease sanctions unless Kim takes real steps to abandon the nuclear weapons and missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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