North Korea claims to have tested newly developed 'hypersonic' missile

摘要

North Korea has claimed that the weapon it test-launched into the East Sea (also known as the Sea of Japan) on 28 September was a newly developed 'hypersonic' missile called the Hwa-song-8 (also spelled Hwaseong-8). Pyongyang's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported a day after the test that the country's Academy of Defence Science had launched the new missile type from the village of Toyang-ri located in the Ryongrim County of North Korea's Jagang (also spelled Chagang) Province, which borders China.