Though cruise missiles are not banned by the UN, this test presents new problems for other nations.
Earlier this week, North Korea announced it had successfully tested a long-range cruise missile capable of hitting much of Japan.
The latest successful test brings up a series of questions - why is North Korea doing this now, how significant is this, and what does it tell us about its priorities?North Korea has broadly been on a trajectory of qualitatively refining and quantitatively expanding its nuclear capabilities since the spring of 2019.
The cruise missiles North Korea tested recently covered a range of some 1,500km over a little more than two hours of flight time. But the development of these cruise missiles shouldn't come as a surprise. Mr Kim had in January 2021 announced that such a system was under development.
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