North Korea confirms missile launches from train

來源: 開云體育app官方網站 時間: 2023-01-23 23:33:37

This photo, released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on Sept. 16, shows a railway-borne missile regiment holding a firing drill a day earlier. Yonhap

North Korea said Thursday that a railway-borne missile regiment held a firing drill a day earlier, confirming the launches, apparently from a train, of two short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea.

"The railway-borne missile regiment took part in the drill with a mission to strike the target area 800 kilometers away from its location after moving to the central mountainous area at dawn on September 15," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.

The KCNA said the North accurately struck the target in the East Sea.

The missiles appeared to have been launched from a train rather than a transporter erector launcher (TEL), according to photos released by state media.

The launches came just days after the North tested a newly developed long-range cruise missile.

The KCNA said that the drills were organized to "increase the capability of dealing an intensive multi-concurrent blow at the forces posing threats to us at a time of conducting necessary military operations."