North Korea released further details of its alleged May submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in its most recent issue of the monthly Pictorial Korea magazine, declaring all aspects of the text to have been successful.

A short paragraph in an article entitled “Full Display of Self-reliant National Defence Industry” describes some of the test’s purposes.

“The test-firing proved that the noise level inside the submarine, recoil, missile’s speed at the surface of waters, flying angle and all the other elements of launch fully satisfied the requirements of the latest military science and technology,” the article reads.

The article goes onto say