{"id":68356,"date":"2025-10-12T12:07:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T06:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=68356"},"modified":"2025-10-13T20:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:22:03","slug":"hwasong-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hwasong-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Hwasong-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Hwasong-20 Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea recently unveiled its latest and most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-20 at a military parade presided over by the country\u2019s leader Kim Jong Un.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Hwasong-20<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) developed by North Korea.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The engine used in the missile is a <\/span><b>solid-fuel engin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e and is <\/span><b>made up of carbon fiber composite materials.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Solid-fueled rockets can be moved more easily and fired more quickly, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in a matter of minutes, than liquid-fueled versions, making them harder to defend against<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a <\/span><b>range of over 15,000 km.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is equipped with an advanced guidance system that combines an <\/span><b>inertial guidance system (INS) with GPS or optical sensor<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s for enhanced accuracy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>What is an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>land-based, nuclear-armed ballistic missile <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with a <\/span><b>range of more than 3,500 miles (5,600 km).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first ICBMs were deployed by the Soviet Union in 1958; the United States followed the next year and China some 20 years later.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ICBMs <strong>c<\/strong><\/span><b>an be launched from silos underground, mobile launchers on land, or submarines at sea.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Countries having operational ICBMs: Russia, United States, China, France, India,\u00a0 United Kingdom, Israel and North Korea. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsonair.gov.in\/north-korea-unveils-hwasong-20-its-most-powerful-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NOA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hwasong-20 is a North Korean ICBM with solid-fuel engine, 15,000+ km range, and quick-launch capability, making it hard to defend against.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":68756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3205,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-68356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-hwasong-20","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}