North Korea confirms launch of hypersonic missile

A North Korean supersonic missile, whose launch was witnessed by DPRK leader Kim Jong Un, hit a target 1,000 kilometers away.
The official newspaper of the Workers’ Party of DPRK, Nodong Sinmun.

Watch Kim Jong Un launch a hypersonic missile. The test was successful, again the hypersonic glide mass was separated from the missile on a 600 km line and hit a specific target in the sea at a distance of a thousand km. ”

Noting that making hypersonic weapons is one of the main goals of the five-year plan for national defense development, Kim Jong-un expressed his “special thanks” to the missile developers.

Earlier, NBC television reported that the US Federal Aviation Administration did not allow planes to take off and land on the country’s west coast for about seven minutes after North Korea launched “something resembling a ballistic missile.”