{"id":38181,"date":"2021-10-20T09:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T00:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/20\/north-korea-says-test-was-new-type-of-submarine-launched-ballistic-missile"},"modified":"2021-10-20T09:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T00:23:22","slug":"north-korea-says-test-was-new-type-of-submarine-launched-ballistic-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38181","title":{"rendered":"North Korea says test was new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State media report that device launched on Tuesday had \u2018lots of advanced control guidance technologies\u2019<\/p>\n<p>North Korea says it has successfully tested a \u201cnew type\u201d of submarine-launched ballistic missile, as the nuclear-armed country pursues ever more improved weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The device had \u201clots of advanced control guidance technologies\u201d, the official Korean Central News Agency said on Wednesday, adding that it was launched from the same vessel that the North used in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/aug\/24\/north-korea-tests-submarine-launched-ballistic-missile\">first submarine-launched ballistic missile<\/a> (SLBM) tests five years ago. The latter point <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/may\/09\/north-korea-announces-test-of-submarine-launched-missile\">casts doubt on claims by Pyongyang in 2015<\/a> that it had launched a submarine-based missile.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/20\/north-korea-says-test-was-new-type-of-submarine-launched-ballistic-missile\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State media report that device launched on Tuesday had \u2018lots of advanced control guidance technologies\u2019North Korea says it has successfully tested a \u201cnew type\u201d of submarine-launched ballistic missile, as the nuclear-armed country pursues ever more impr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,441,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38182,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38181\/revisions\/38182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}