The kind of missile fired from North Korea on Thursday is a recently developed “tactically guided missile,” North Korean state newscaster KCNA stated Friday.

North Korea has thrown two missiles for the second time in a short time on Thursday.

Conferring to KCNA, this is a novel type of weapon based on prevailing techniques that has been enhanced by installing a 2.5-ton warhead and a compacted fuel engine.

They report that the weapon was thrown 600 kilometres off the North Korean coast.

The Japanese and South Korean establishments had beforehand assessed that the missiles had travelled approximately 420 to 450 kilometres and concluded up in the sea.