Russia has announced it has “successfully” tested an “advanced” ICBM, just weeks after suspending participation in a nuclear arms control treaty with the United States.
The Defense Ministry said in a statement that a “combat team successfully fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from a landmobile missile system at the Kapustin Yar base.”
“The test missile’s warhead accurately hit a simulated target at the Sary Shagan training ground (in the Republic of Kazakhstan),” it adds.
Russia successfully tests a new model of an ICBM
Since the offensive in Ukraine began last year, President Vladimir Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons if he sees Russia in danger.
At the end of February, the Russian head of state announced the suspension of the country’s participation in the New START nuclear disarmament treaty signed with the United States.
Less than three weeks ago, Putin said he would install tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, an allied country that would bring the weapons to the Ukrainian border and very close to the European Union.
Both decisions were criticized by NATO.
Although the Russian ministry did not specify what type of missile was used in Tuesday’s test, the ministry noted that the purpose of the exercise “was to test advanced antiballistic ICBM materials.”
“The launch confirmed the accuracy of the circuit design and engineering solutions used in the development of new strategic missile systems,” he added.
In February, Putin said the country would introduce a new type of ICBM this year after intelligence agencies from the United States reported a failed test of the weapon.
Dubbed “Satan 2” by Western analysts, the new Sarmat projectile can carry multiple nuclear warheads and is part of the new generation of Russian missiles that Putin has already described as “invincible”.
Kim Jongun orders military chiefs to step up “practical and offensive” war preparations
North Korean President Kim Jongun called on the commanders of the country’s armed forces to develop preparations for war “quickly, in a more practical and offensive manner”.
According to the North Korean leader, the military must know how to operate equipment and troops and align strategies “efficiently” to “closer control of the increasingly tightening security situation on the Korean Peninsula.”
The message was relayed during a meeting Monday (10th) at the Workers’ Party of Korea Central Committee with the armed forces.
According to KCNA, North Korea’s official press, “the meeting discussed important military issues arising from the completion of the country’s defense potential and war preparations given the seriousness of the current security situation on the Korean peninsula, where politics and aggressive military action pose a real threat.”
For Kim Jongun, the recent joint USSouth Korean military exercises pose a real threat
According to the dictator, speaking in the official press, “strengthen strategic measures are needed to expand and strengthen the country’s war capacity by any means, in the face of the increasing efforts of the US imperialists and the search for a war of aggression from the traitorous puppets of the South Koreans”
North Korea recently expanded nuclear missile tests on land and sea.
One of the presented weapons was a waterlaunched torpedo capable of a nuclear tsunami
Kim Jongun also accompanied the launch of ICBMsreportedly capable of hitting Japan or South Korea, allies of the United States
North Korea’s shooting has always caused concern among South Korea’s neighbors.