North Korea "Successful Solid Fuel Ground Ejection Test"... Kim Jong Un Observes, "Expect New Strategic Weapon"

North Korean Media Reports "Successful Test of High-Power Solid Fuel Engine at West Sea Satellite Launch Site"

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[Asia Economy Yang Nak-gyu, Military Specialist Reporter] North Korea announced that it has succeeded in a ground firing test of a high-thrust solid-fuel engine (rocket engine) at the Dongchang-ri West Sea Satellite Launch Site in Cholsan County, North Pyongan Province.

On the 16th, the important research institute of the National Defense Science Academy reported through the Korean Central News Agency that "on the morning of the 15th, the first ground firing test of a 140tf (ton-force) thrust high-thrust solid-fuel engine was successfully conducted at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site."

The agency reported that Chairman Kim Jong-un personally supervised the critical test on site, accompanied by Jo Yong-won, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and Kim Jong-sik, Vice Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. Chairman Kim highly praised the resolution of another major issue in realizing the top five priority tasks in the strategic weapons sector of the five-year plan for national defense science development and weapons system development presented at the 8th Party Congress, and "warmly encouraged them, expressing expectations for the emergence of another new strategic weapon in the shortest possible time," the agency stated.

The agency introduced that "this test was conducted with the purpose of verifying all technical characteristics of the high-thrust solid-fuel engine incorporating thrust vector control technology," and "the test results confirmed that all technical indicators, including the engine's thrust, specific impulse, combustion characteristics, operation time, and thrust vector control characteristics, matched the design values, and its reliability and safety were scientifically and rigorously verified."

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