State media says test will change regime’s ‘strategic position’ amid further tensions with US
North Korea has carried out a “very important” test at its Sohae satellite launch site, a rocket testing ground US officials once said Pyongyang had promised to close, state media KCNA have reported.
The reported test comes as a year-end deadline North Korea has imposed on resuming missile tests nears, warning it could take a “new path” amid stalled denuclearisation talks with the US. The KCNA report called it a “successful test of great significance” on Saturday but did not specify what was tested.
