Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Oversees Ground Jet Test of High-Thrust Carbon Fiber Solid-Fuel Engine

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Oversees
Ground Jet Test of High-Thrust Carbon Fiber

Solid-Fuel Engine

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.