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Hwasal-2
The Hwasal-2 () is a North Korean cruise missile. Description The Hwasal-2 is estimated to be long, wide and weigh . Its assumed range is . The estimated payload mass is . The Hwasal-2 can be launched by land-based mobile launcher, corvette ship or submarine. It is capable of carrying Hwasan-31 nuclear warhead. Hwasal-2 has three color versions: White, black and dark blue. History This missile was first observed in Self-Defense-2021 military exhibition with another cruise missile, Hwasal-1. On 23 February 2023, the Korean Central News Agency revealed the missile's official name as Hwasal-2. A black-painted version was tested on 30 January 2024. A dark blue-painted version of Hwasal-2 was also displayed during the launching ceremony for the ''Choe Hyon'' destroyer ship on 25 April 2025. List of Hwasal-2 launches See also *Hwasal-1 The Hwasal-1 () is a North Korean cruise missile. Description Hwasal-1's normal range is about . Based on information from maid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hwasal-1
The Hwasal-1 () is a North Korean cruise missile. Description Hwasal-1's normal range is about . Based on information from maiden flight in September 2021, Hwasal-1 appears to be a subsonic cruise missile. According to North Korea, it is a "strategic" cruise missile. Hwasal-1 is capable of carrying Hwasan-31 The Hwasan-31 () is a North Korean tactical nuclear warhead first unveiled in 2023. Design Based on images released by North Korea, the Hwasan-31 is estimated to be long, wide, has a mass of and a yield of 4-10 kt. History At the 8th Congres ... tactical nuclear warhead. For image of Hwasal-1, sehere History Hwasal-1 was first launched in September 2021. Further flight tests of Hwasal-1 were carried out in 2022 and 2023. However, the official name of the missile was only revealed in March 2023 test. List of tests Hwasal-1 Ra-3 The Hwasal-1 Ra-3 () is a variant of Hwasal-1 with larger warhead. On 19 April 2024, Hwasal-1 Ra-3 made its public debut as a Hwasal-1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulhwasal-3-31
The Pulhwasal-3-31 () is a North Korean submarine-launched cruise missile. Description Based on images released by North Korea, Pulhwasal-3-31 appears to be a long-range, land-attack cruise missile for attacking fixed targets on the ground. It is similar to Russia's Kalibr or United States's Tomahawk. According to North Korea, it is a "strategic" cruise missile. As the missile's name contains number 31, it is highly likely that Pulhwasal-3-31 is able to carry the Hwasan-31 tactical nuclear warhead. It is capable of flying for more than two hours. Its assumed range is . List of tests See also *Hwasal-2 * Kalibr * Babur III *Tomahawk A tomahawk is a type of single-handed axe used by the many Native Americans in the United States, Indian peoples and nations of North America, traditionally resembles a hatchet with a straight shaft. Etymology The name comes from Powhatan langu ... * Haeseong III References {{DPRK missiles Cruise missiles of North Korea Military equi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hwasan-31
The Hwasan-31 () is a North Korean tactical nuclear warhead first unveiled in 2023. Design Based on images released by North Korea, the Hwasan-31 is estimated to be long, wide, has a mass of and a yield of 4-10 kt. History At the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea held in January 2021, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un planned to manufacture miniaturized nuclear weapons. North Korea unveiled Hwasan-31 on 27 March 2023. During the revelation of Hwasan-31, North Korea also revealed official designation of some short-range ballistic missiles that was tested in years before. Capability Hwasan-31 is capable of being carried by following weapon systems: *Short-range ballistic missiles: ** Hwasong-11A (KN-23) ** Hwasong-11B (KN-24) ** Hwasong-11C ** Hwasong-11D ** Hwasong-11S ** KN-25 (600 mm multiple rocket launcher) *Cruise missiles: ** Hwasal-1 ** Hwasal-2 ** Pulhwasal-3-31 *Unmanned underwater vehicle Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV), also known as underwater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Korean Destroyer Choe Hyon
''Choe Hyon'' () is the lead ship of the s to be operated by the Korean People's Navy (KPN). The ship is the first destroyer operated by the KPN. The vessel was launched on 27 April 2025. Design and development According to the press release by the North Korean state-run news agency Korean Central News Agency, the class is classified as a multipurpose destroyer with a Displacement (ship), displacement of . Based on satellite imagery analysis, the destroyer has a length of around and Beam (nautical), beam of around . Based on footage released by the North Korean state media during the first ship construction in December 2024 and satellite imagery of a second North Korean destroyer Kang Kon, unnamed ship of the same class, the vessels would be armed with one main gun and numerous vertical launching system (VLS) cells for guided missiles, located at the Bow (ship), bow, just behind the main gun, and at the stern. The VLS cells bear a resemblance to the 3M22 Zircon. The ship would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruise Missile
A cruise missile is an unmanned self-propelled guided missile that sustains flight through aerodynamic lift for most of its flight path. Cruise missiles are designed to deliver a large payload over long distances with high precision. Modern cruise missiles are capable of traveling at high Aerodynamics#Incompressible aerodynamics, subsonic, Supersonic speed, supersonic, or Hypersonic speed, hypersonic speeds, are self-navigating, and are able to fly on a non-Ballistics, ballistic, extremely low-altitude trajectory. History The idea of an "aerial torpedo" was shown in the British 1909 film ''The Airship Destroyer'' in which flying torpedoes controlled wirelessly are used to bring down airships bombing London. In 1916, the Americans, American Aircraft pilot, aviator Lawrence Sperry built and patented an "aerial torpedo", the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, a small biplane carrying a TNT charge, a Sperry autopilot and barometric altitude control. Inspired by the experiments, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyodo News
is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo. It was established in November 1945 and it distributes news to almost all newspapers, and radio and television networks in Japan. The newspapers using its news have about 50 million subscribers. K. K. Kyodo News is Kyodo News' business arm, established in 1972.Shrivastava, K. M. (2007). ''News agencies from pigeon to internet.'' Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 208. . The subdivision Kyodo News International, founded in 1982, provides over 200 reports to international news media and is located in Rockefeller Center, New York City. Their online news site is in Japanese language, Japanese, Chinese language, Chinese (Simplified Chinese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Traditional), Korean language, Korean, and English language, English. The agency employs over 1,000 journalists and photographers, and maintains news exchange agreements with over 70 international media outlets. Satoshi Ishikawa is the news agency's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yonhap News Agency
Yonhap News Agency (; ) is a major news agency in South Korea. It is based in Seoul, South Korea. Yonhap provides news articles, pictures, and other information to newspapers, TV networks and other media in South Korea. History Yonhap was established on 19 December 1980, through the merger of Hapdong News Agency and Orient Press. The Hapdong News Agency itself emerged in late 1945 out of the short-lived Kukje News, which had operated for two months out of the office of the Domei, the former Japanese news agency that had functioned in Korea during the Japanese Japanese colonial era. In 1999, Yonhap took over the Naewoe News Agency. Naewoe was a South Korea government-affiliated organization, created in the mid 1970s, tasked with publishing information and analysis on North Korea from a South Korean perspective through books and journals. Naewoe was known to have close links with South Korea's intelligence agency, and according to the British academic and historian James Hoar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Hamgyong
South Hamgyong Province (, ''Hamgyŏngnamdo''; ) is a Administrative divisions of North Korea, province of North Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the southern half of the former Hamgyong Province, Hamgyong Province, remained a province of Korea until 1945, then became a province of North Korea. Its capital is Hamhung. Geography The province is bordered by Ryanggang to the north, North Hamgyong to the northeast, Kangwon-do (North Korea), Kangwon to the south, and South Pyongan to the west. To the east of the province is the Sea of Japan. Administrative divisions South Hamgyong is divided into three cities ("si"), two districts (one "gu" and one "chigu"), and 15 counties ("gun"). These are further divided into villages (''Ri (administrative division), ri'' and ''Dong (administrative division), dong'', with dong also denoting neighborhoods in cities), with each county additionally having one town (''Eup (administrative division), up'') which acts as its administrative c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stars And Stripes (newspaper)
''Stars and Stripes'' is a daily American military newspaper reporting on matters concerning the members of the United States Armed Forces and their communities, with an emphasis on those serving outside the United States. It operates from inside the Department of Defense, but is editorially separate from it, and its First Amendment protection is safeguarded by the United States Congress to whom an independent ombudsman, who serves the readers' interests, regularly reports. As well as a website, ''Stars and Stripes'' publishes a global daily print edition for U.S. military service members serving overseas Monday through Friday. This global edition is also available as a free download in electronic format. The newspaper has its headquarters in Washington, D.C. History Creation On November 9, 1861, during the Civil War, soldiers of the 11th, 18th, and 29th Illinois Regiments set up camp in the Missouri city of Bloomfield. Finding the local newspaper's office empty, they d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NK News
NK News is an American subscription-based news website that provides stories and analysis about North Korea. Established in 2011, it is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea with reporters in Washington, D.C., and London. Reporting is based on information collected from in-country sources, recently returned western visitors to North Korea, stories filed by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), interviews with defectors, and reports published by NGOs and western governments. The site's founder and Managing Director is Chad O'Carroll, a former employee of the German Marshall Fund, who has written on North Korea and North Korea issues for ''The Daily Telegraph''. Regular features * ''Ask a North Korean'': a forum whereby readers can submit questions about daily life in North Korea which are answered by a panel of four defectors. The column covering Jang Song-thaek's execution received particular attention. * ''Expert Survey'': in which various Korean and Western experts on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and the Sea of Japan to the east. Like North Korea, South Korea claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and List of islands of South Korea, adjacent islands. It has Demographics of South Korea, a population of about 52 million, of which half live in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, the List of largest cities, ninth most populous metropolitan area in the world; other major cities include Busan, Daegu, and Incheon. The Korean Peninsula was inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period. Gojoseon, Its first kingdom was noted in Chinese records in the early seventh century BC. From the mid first century BC, various Polity, polities consolidated into the rival Three Kingdoms of Korea, kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as ''The Daily Telegraph and Courier''. ''The Telegraph'' is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", was included in its emblem which was used for over a century starting in 1858. In 2013, ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph'', which started in 1961, were merged, although the latter retains its own editor. It is politically conservative and supports the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. It was moderately Liberalism, liberal politically before the late 1870s.Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalismp 159 ''The Telegraph'' has had a number of news scoops, including the outbreak of World War II by rookie reporter Clare Hollingworth, desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
