{"id":52330,"date":"2024-05-18T18:46:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T08:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=52330"},"modified":"2024-05-18T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T08:46:13","slug":"north-korea-confirms-missile-launch-vows-bolstered-nuclear-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=52330","title":{"rendered":"North Korea confirms missile launch, vows bolstered nuclear force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>North Korea has test-fired a tactical ballistic missile equipped with a &#8220;new autonomous navigation system&#8221;, state media said Saturday, with leader Kim Jong Un vowing to boost the country&#8217;s nuclear force.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kim oversaw the Friday test-launch into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on a mission to evaluate the &#8220;accuracy and reliability of the autonomous navigation system&#8221;, Pyongyang&#8217;s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.<\/p>\n<p>The launch was the latest in a string of ever more sophisticated tests by North Korea, which has fired off cruise missiles, tactical rockets and hypersonic weapons in recent months, in what the nuclear-armed, UN-sanctioned country says is a drive to upgrade its defences.<\/p>\n<p>The Friday launch came hours after leader Kim&#8217;s powerful sister Kim Yo Jong denied allegations by Seoul and Washington that Pyongyang is shipping weapons to Russia for use in its war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has test-fired a tactical ballistic missile equipped with a &#8220;new autonomous navigation system&#8221;, state media said Saturday, with leader Kim Jong Un vowing to boost the country&#8217;s nuclear force. Kim oversaw the Friday test-launch into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on a mission to evaluate the &#8220;accuracy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1504,1505],"class_list":["post-52330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-north-korea-confirms-missile-launch","tag-vows-bolstered-nuclear-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}