N. Korea Conducts 'Important Test' at Once-Dismantled Site
Source: AP
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea said Sunday that it carried out a very important test at its long-range rocket launch site that it reportedly rebuilt after having partially dismantled it at the start of denuclearization talks with the United States last year.
The announcement comes amid dimming prospects for a resumption of negotiations, with the North threatening to seek a new way if it fails to get major U.S. concessions by years end. North Korea has said its resumption of nuclear and long-range missile tests depends on the United States.
Saturdays test at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground will have an important effect on changing the strategic position of (North Korea) once again in the near future, an unidentified spokesman from the Norths Academy of National Defense Science said in a statement, carried by the country's official Korean Central News Agency.
North Korea didn't say what the test included. Kim Dong-yub, an analyst at Seoul's Institute for Far Eastern Studies, said that North Korea likely tested for the first time a solid-fuel engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-12-07/north-korea-says-it-carried-out-very-important-test