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DPRK Missile Administration Conducts Ground Jet Test of Carbon Fiber Solid-fuel Engine

Date: 09/09/2025 | Source: KCNA.co.jp (En) | Read original version at source

Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- The Missile Administration of the DPRK, together with the Academy of Chemical Materials, conducted another ground jet test of high-thrust solid-fuel engine using the composite carbon fiber material on September 8. A spokesman for the DPRK Missile Administration made public such following contents: The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un oversaw the important test. The ninth ground jet test of the engine is the last one in the development process. The maximum thrust of the engine is 1,971 kN. On the same day, a decree on awarding the state commendations to the president of the Academy of Chemical Materials and the director of the Institute of Solid-fuel Engine under the Missile Administration was ratified. Kim Jong Un appreciated that the eye-opening fruition of the development of high-thrust carbon fiber solid-fuel engine is the success assuming the most strategic nature in the recent modernization of defence technology and heralds a significant change in expanding and strengthening the nuclear strategic forces of the DPRK. Present there were Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the Munitions Industry of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the general director of the Missile Administration, the president of the Academy of Missile Science, the president of the Academy of Chemical Materials, managers and chief engineers of the Institute of Solid-fuel Engine and the Missile Engine Production Factory and other scientists, technicians and officials in the relevant sector.

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