Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Oversees Ground Jet Test of High-Thrust Carbon Fiber Solid-Fuel Engine
Date: 29/03/2026 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un , general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, oversaw a ground jet test of high-thrust solid-fuel engine using the composite carbon fiber material.
The maximum thrust of the newly upgraded solid-fuel engine is 2 500kN and the test is a part of the national defence development plan in the period of the new five-year plan which set the steady upgrading of strategic strike means as a major goal.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK.
He referred to the strategic significance of the upgraded engine's test.
He said that the test of great significance in putting the country's strategic military muscle on the highest level fully conforms with the national strategy and the military demand for modernizing the strategic forces.
He affirmed that the development trend of the DPRK's defence capabilities, which has already entered a significant phase of change in the building of the strategic forces, would be further transformed and accelerated by the development and introduction of better components with superior economic and technical effectiveness as proven in the test.
He referred to the major tasks for further stepping up the development of the state strategic forces both in quality and quantity.
Present there were Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration of the DPRK, officials of the Missile Administration and the missile research sector and scientists, technicians and officials of the relevant sector including the Institute of Solid-fuel Engine and the Missile Engine Production Factory. -0-
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