North Korea Announces Test of AI-Equipped Strategic Missile

Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, said on Saturday that her country conducted a test of an intermediate-range strategic missile.

Earlier on Saturday, the South Korean military announced that Pyongyang launched a ballistic missile that traveled more than 700 kilometers toward the sea off its eastern coast.

In a statement, Kim Yo-jong, an official in the ruling Workers' Party, said drills involving a "strategic weapon" were conducted toward the sea off the country's eastern coast using an intermediate-range missile.

She added that the North Korean leader supervised the drill carried out by a "sub-unit armed with a special exclusive mission."

She referred to statements issued by Seoul and Tokyo regarding the distance the missile traveled, saying their findings demonstrate the limitations of their tracking capabilities, as she put it.

She said South Korea and Japan "must acknowledge the speed of the missile," without revealing the speed.

She noted that the missile was also capable of changing its flight path at low altitude using artificial intelligence technology.

She added: "In other words, this means there is no way to evade an attack by this missile."

The launch came after Kim Yo-jong issued a statement yesterday, Friday, rejecting Seoul's demand for an apology over what she described as North Korean mines causing severe injuries to South Korean soldiers in the heavily fortified demilitarized zone between the two Koreas.