North Korea test-fires new ‘guided weapon’
19 April 2019 |
4:00 pm
Pyongyang tested an unspecified "guided weapon" with a "powerful warhead," North Korea's official news agency KCNA has reported. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un oversaw the operation.
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