North Korean leader Kim Jong Un<\/a> has inspected Russia\u2019s hypersonic \u2018Kinzhal\u2019 missiles as well as strategic, nuclear-capable bombers in the latest stop on his tour of Russian space, military and other technological facilities in the country\u2019s Far East, according to Russian-language news media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOleg Kozhemyako, the governor of Russia\u2019s Primorsky region, announced Kim\u2019s arrival in the city of Artyom, about 40km (25 miles) northeast of Vladivostok on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kozhemyako released a video showing a smiling Kim\u2019s arrival on board his private, armoured train and being greeted by children presenting flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After arriving in Artyom, Kim then travelled to the Vladivostok airport just outside the city where he was shown Russia\u2019s nuclear-capable strategic bombers and other warplanes by Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and other senior military officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shoigu introduced Kim to Russia\u2019s latest missile, the hypersonic Kinzhal \u2013 which means \u2018dagger\u2019 in Russian \u2013 an air-launched ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear or conventional warheads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Kinzhal has a reported range of 1,500 to 2,000 km (930-1,240 miles) while carrying a payload of 480kg (1,100 pounds). It may travel at up to 10 times the speed of sound (12,000 kph or 7,700 mph).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Al Jazeera News: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected Russia\u2019s hypersonic \u2018Kinzhal\u2019 missiles as well as strategic, nuclear-capable bombers in the latest stop on his tour of Russian space, military and other technological facilities in the country\u2019s Far East, according to Russian-language news media reports. Oleg Kozhemyako, the governor of Russia\u2019s Primorsky region, announced Kim\u2019s arrival in the city of Artyom, about 40km (25 miles) northeast of Vladivostok on Saturday. Kozhemyako released a video showing a smiling Kim\u2019s arrival on board his private, armoured train and being greeted by children presenting flowers. After arriving in Artyom, Kim then… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34888,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34886\/revisions\/34888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}