North Korea has successfully fired a new anti-aircraft missile, state media said Friday as the UN Security Council failed to issue a statement after an emergency meeting on the recent flurry of weapons tests by the nuclear-armed nation.
The anti-aircraft missile had a "remarkable combat performance" and included twin rudder controls and other new technologies, the official Korean Central News Agency said.
In September, it launched what it said was a long-range cruise missile, and earlier this week tested what it described as a hypersonic gliding vehicle, which South Korea's military said appeared to be in the early stages of development. But it was delayed by Russia and China, who asked for more time to study the situation, a diplomatic source said.
During the meeting China complained that a new alliance between Britain, Australia and the United States, under which Washington will provide nuclear submarine technology to Canberra, is a threat to the region, diplomats said. The US and British delegations said this issue had nothing to do with North Korea, diplomats added.
With its latest actions, Kim was looking to "test the waters with Washington" and its "threshold for weapons provocations", Soo Kim of the RAND Corporation told AFP.
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