CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Hypersonic missiles fly at several times the speed of sound and at low altitude, to escape radar detection. It ended 2022 by firing three short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea, a few days after flying five drones into South Korea’s airspace.

Detailed explanation-2: -North Korea’s known intercontinental-range ballistic missiles are the Taepodong series of missiles, the KN-08, the KN-14, the Hwasong-14, and the Hwasong-15. The Taepodong series includes both the Unha-2 and the Unha-3.

Detailed explanation-3: -North Korea has paraded its largest nuclear missiles through the capital, Pyongyang, during a nighttime ceremony that also appeared to feature what analysts believe is a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

Detailed explanation-4: -SEOUL-North Korea has unveiled what analysts said was a new, solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile during a nighttime military parade in Pyongyang on Wednesday, the latest example of the country’s effort to fill its arsenal with increasingly advanced nuclear technology.

Detailed explanation-5: -Kim Jong-un’s regime launched over 90 ballistic and other missiles in 2022, more than in any other year.