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North Korea tests ‘new type, high thrust’ solid-fuel engines for IRBMs

Solid fuel weapons are easier and safer to operate than those that are liquid fuelled [KCNA via Reuters]

North Korea has successfully conducted static tests of a new solid-fuel engine for its banned intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM), according to state media.

The country “has developed new-type high-thrust solid-fuel engines for intermediate ballistic missiles again, which are of important strategic significance,” the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Wednesday.

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