N. Korea's Kim oversees ground test of high-thrust solid-fuel missile engine: KCNA

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen a ground test of a high-thrust solid-fuel missile engine using a composite carbon fiber material, N. Korea's Kim oversees ground test of high-thrust solid-fuel missile engine: KCNA oversaw the test of a newly upgraded engine made with composite carbon fiber material, with maximum thrust of 2,500 kilonewtons, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said without disclosing the date or location of the test. The test was part of a five-year national defense development plan aimed at the steady upgrading of strategic strike means, the KCNA said, quoting Kim as saying that North Korea's defense capabilities had "entered a significant phase of change in the building of the strategic forces." It marks the North's first high-thrust solid-fuel missile engine test since the last test conducted in September last year, when the engine's maximum thrust was put at 1,971 kN. The engine is assessed to have been developed for use in the Hwasong-20 inter-continental ballistic missile under development. Kim touted the test as having "great significance" in putting

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