North Korea has ground-tested a new type of high-powered engine for long-range rockets, its official KCNA news agency announced, not long after the United States and China vowed closer co-operation following Pyongyang’s fifth nuclear test.
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The ground test was announced on September 20 by the official Korean Central News Agency.
The resolution called for North Korea to end its nuclear program and for China to utilize its leverage over North Korea and aggressively enforce United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions.
China and the United States are also targeting the finances of Hongxiang Industrial, a Chinese company headed by a Communist Party cadre, that the Obama administration thinks has a role in assisting North Korea’s nuclear program, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
In August, twisted Kim tested a submarine ballistic missile, with experts noting the latest set of tests showed considerable progress.
Japan wants the global community to think about curbing trade and money flows, as well as the movements of people, to further halt North Korea’s nuclear program, a spokesman for the Prime Minister told BuzzFeed News.
The letter also requested the strengthening of trilateral ties between the U.S., South Korea, and Japan. The letters read “Kim Jong Un directed the ground test of a high-powered engine of a carrier rocket for a geo-stationary satellite”.
A geostationary satellite must be propelled to an altitude of 36,000 kilometers (22,500 miles), a Unification Ministry official was quoted as saying by South Korea’s official Yonhap news agency.
Meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, US Secretary of State John Kerry and the Japanese and South Korean foreign ministers said the North Korean test earlier this month would not go unanswered.
The US has a range of missile-defense technologies at its disposal, including the Aegis Combat System, Patriot missiles and sophisticated radars.
On February 7, North Korea launched a newly developed earth observation satellite “Kwangmyongsong-4”. They discussed further unilateral and multilateral methods to deter North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, in addition to the UN Security Council’s ongoing talks on a new resolution. “By one estimate, this amount would have been nearly enough to both fund North Korea’s uranium enrichment facilities, and to design, make and test its nuclear weapons”, the report said.
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North Korea has succeeded in testing a state-of-the-art, powerful rocket engine, state media reports.
