North Korea claims to be testing medium-range strategic missile incorporating AI technology

(Central News Agency, Seoul, comprehensive foreign news report on the 3rd) North Korea said today that it has tested a medium-range strategic missile combined with artificial intelligence (AI) technology, which can change its flight path at low altitude. "There is no way to avoid such an attack." South Korea earlier reported that Pyongyang had launched a ballistic missile.

Agence France-Presse reported that Kim Yo-jung, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, pointed out in a statement that the missile launched today "introduces AI technology and can change its flight trajectory at low altitudes."

Reuters reported that South Korea's military said earlier that North Korea launched a ballistic missile into the eastern sea today, flying a distance of more than 700 kilometers.

She said that this time, the medium-range missile was used to conduct a "strategic weapons" exercise off the east coast. Kim Jong-un personally supervised the exercise, which was carried out by a "fire team dedicated to special tasks."

She cited South Korea and Tokyo's statements about the missile's flight distance, saying it showed the limitations of their tracking capabilities.

Kim Yo-jong said: "Whenever our missile adopts the wave-like trajectory mode, the enemy cannot track it from the first jump point." However, she did not provide relevant evidence.

She did not disclose the speed of the missile, but stressed that South Korea and Japan "should also recognize the speed of this missile" and said that the missile using AI technology has the ability to change its flight trajectory at low altitudes.

"In other words, there is no way to avoid this kind of attack," she stressed.

North Korea has conducted more than 10 missile tests this year. Pyongyang sometimes says it is testing new weapons systems. Some of the tests were conducted after North Korea protested against joint military exercises between Seoul and Washington.