North Korea takes solid-fuel ICBM threat to unprecedented heights

JAKARTA -- North Korea appears to have developed solid-fuel rocket technology that would make it more difficult for the U.S. and South Korea to strike its intercontinental ballistic missiles before they are launched.

A missile tested by Pyongyang on Wednesday climbed to a maximum altitude of 6,648.4 kilometers, the North's official Korean Central News Agency said Thursday. If true, that exceeds that of the liquid-fuel Hwasong-17 ICBM, which reached 6,045 km in a March launch.

North Korea takes solid-fuel ICBM threat to unprecedented heights

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