People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on 14 January. North Korea was said to have fired a ballistic missile that day and this was confirmed by Pyongyang on 15 January. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea has claimed that the weapon it tested on 14 January was a solid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) that was tipped with a hypersonic warhead.

The latest test was carried out to verify the gliding and manoeuvring capabilities of the weapon's controllable hypersonic warhead and the reliability of the newly developed multistage high-thrust solid-fuel engines, read a statement released by state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) on 15 January.

It was carried out successfully and the test did not affect the security of any neighbouring country and had nothing to do with the “regional situation”, the statement added, without elaborating further on this. The agency further added that the test firing is part of regular activities to develop powerful weapon systems.

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on 14 January. North Korea was said to have fired a ballistic missile that day and this was confirmed by Pyongyang on 15 January. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea has claimed that the weapon it tested on 14 January was a solid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) that was tipped with a hypersonic warhead.

The latest test was carried out to verify the gliding and manoeuvring capabilities of the weapon's controllable hypersonic warhead and the reliability of the newly developed multistage high-thrust solid-fuel engines, read a statement released by state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) on 15 January.

It was carried out successfully and the test did not affect the security of any neighbouring country and had nothing to do with the “regional situation”, the statement added, without elaborating further on this. The agency further added that the test firing is part of regular activities to develop powerful weapon systems.

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on 14 January. North Korea was said to have fired a ballistic missile that day and this was confirmed by Pyongyang on 15 January. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea has claimed that the weapon it tested on 14 January was a solid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) that was tipped with a hypersonic warhead.

The latest test was carried out to verify the gliding and manoeuvring capabilities of the weapon's controllable hypersonic warhead and the reliability of the newly developed multistage high-thrust solid-fuel engines, read a statement released by state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) on 15 January.

It was carried out successfully and the test did not affect the security of any neighbouring country and had nothing to do with the “regional situation”, the statement added, without elaborating further on this. The agency further added that the test firing is part of regular activities to develop powerful weapon systems.

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on 14 January. North Korea was said to have fired a ballistic missile that day and this was confirmed by Pyongyang on 15 January. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea has claimed that the weapon it tested on 14 January was a solid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) that was tipped with a hypersonic warhead.

The latest test was carried out to verify the gliding and manoeuvring capabilities of the weapon's controllable hypersonic warhead and the reliability of the newly developed multistage high-thrust solid-fuel engines, read a statement released by state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) on 15 January.

It was carried out successfully and the test did not affect the security of any neighbouring country and had nothing to do with the “regional situation”, the statement added, without elaborating further on this. The agency further added that the test firing is part of regular activities to develop powerful weapon systems.

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on 14 January. North Korea was said to have fired a ballistic missile that day and this was confirmed by Pyongyang on 15 January. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea has claimed that the weapon it tested on 14 January was a solid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) that was tipped with a hypersonic warhead.

The latest test was carried out to verify the gliding and manoeuvring capabilities of the weapon's controllable hypersonic warhead and the reliability of the newly developed multistage high-thrust solid-fuel engines, read a statement released by state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) on 15 January.

It was carried out successfully and the test did not affect the security of any neighbouring country and had nothing to do with the “regional situation”, the statement added, without elaborating further on this. The agency further added that the test firing is part of regular activities to develop powerful weapon systems.

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on 14 January. North Korea was said to have fired a ballistic missile that day and this was confirmed by Pyongyang on 15 January. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea has claimed that the weapon it tested on 14 January was a solid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) that was tipped with a hypersonic warhead.

The latest test was carried out to verify the gliding and manoeuvring capabilities of the weapon's controllable hypersonic warhead and the reliability of the newly developed multistage high-thrust solid-fuel engines, read a statement released by state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) on 15 January.

It was carried out successfully and the test did not affect the security of any neighbouring country and had nothing to do with the “regional situation”, the statement added, without elaborating further on this. The agency further added that the test firing is part of regular activities to develop powerful weapon systems.