Off the wire
• Chinese FM meets French counterpart on cooperation  • 2nd LD Writethru: DPRK leader guides ground jet test of rocket engine  • Innovation to ensure U.S. military remains best fighting force in world: Pentagon chief  • 1st LD: China to donate 100 mln USD more to UN development programs in 2020  • Urgent: DPRK conducts ground test of new rocket engine: Yonhap  • Quotable quotes from high-level UN meeting on refugees, migrants  • Danish fighter jets involved in attack in Syria: military  • 1st LD: DPRK leader guides ground jet test of rocket engine  • Mexico marks anniversary of deadly 1985 quake with drill  • Spotlight: WTO official lauds China's efforts to increase LDC inclusion in world economy  
You are here: 　 Home

Urgent: DPRK conducts test of "new type high-power engine of carrier rocket": report

Xinhua, September 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has successfully conducted a ground test of a new rocket engine, Yonhap quoted DPRK's state-run news agency as reporting on Tuesday.

DPRK leader Kim Jong-un visited the Sohae Space Center in the North's western region to guide the test of "a new type high-power engine of a carrier rocket for the geo-stationary satellite," Yonhap quoted the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) as saying.

The successful manufacturing of the engine provides sufficient carrier capability for launching various kinds of satellites, including Earth observation satellites, and the launch was ordered by Kim, Yonhap reported. Endit