{"id":12861,"date":"2026-11-01T00:23:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=12861"},"modified":"2026-11-01T00:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:23:40","slug":"n-korea-tests-cluster-bomb-mountable-on-tactical-ballistic-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=12861","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea tests cluster bomb mountable on tactical ballistic missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This composite photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Sunday, shows a test of a cluster warhead for tactical ballistic missiles, conducted the previous day. Yonhap <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North Korea has tested a cluster bomb that can be mounted on tactical ballistic missiles and vowed to field various types of cluster warheads by the end of the year, its state media said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The North’s Missile Administration conducted the test on Saturday to assess adaptation to combat and power of a cluster-bomb warhead to be mounted on tactical ballistic missiles, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.<\/p>\n

Gen. Kim Jong-sik, member of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and first vice department director of the WPK Central Committee oversaw the test, the KCNA said.<\/p>\n

A cluster bomb releases dozens to hundreds of submunitions, allowing it to strike multiple targets over a wide area.<\/p>\n

The research institutes under the Missile Administration “confirmed that Standard Type 2 cluster-bomb warhead is capable of turning into ashes a target area of 12 to 13 hectares with its highest-density power,” according to the KCNA.<\/p>\n

The general director of the Missile Administration was quoted as stating that the cluster bomb warheads are classified into four categories depending on their purposes.<\/p>\n

“Within this year we will enable units to select and use all those types according to operational aims and specific features of targets,” the director said.<\/p>\n

In April, North Korea said it tested cluster bombs mounted on the Hwasong-11 Ra tactical ballistic missile, a launch overseen by leader Kim Jong-un and his daughter Ju-ae.<\/p>\n

The North said the launch was to evaluate the power of the cluster bomb warhead and fragmentation mine warhead fitted to the weapon system.<\/p>\n

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