North Korea Tests New Weapon, State News Agency Says
By David E. Sanger and Choe Sang-Hun
WASHINGTON — North Korea said Thursday it test-fired a new type of “tactical guided weapon,” in what appeared to be a warning from Kim Jong Un to President Donald Trump that unless once-promising negotiations with Washington resume, the two countries could again be on a collision course.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency did not specify what type of weapon was involved in the test. But there was no evidence the test involved a nuclear detonation or an intercontinental ballistic missile.
The North has observed a voluntary moratorium of those tests since November 2017, and Trump has repeatedly said the North’s self-imposed suspension of nuclear and long-range missile tests was one of his administration’s biggest achievements, and credited himself with averting war by first threatening the North with “fire and fury” and then initiating two face-to-face meetings with Kim.
