North Korea tested a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Tuesday, according to state-run media on Wednesday.

The state media report comes a day after South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff assessed that North Korea launched one SLBM from waters in the Sinpho area of South Hamgyong Province, where a large shipyard is located.

The DPRK’s Academy of National Defense Science said that “the new-type” SLBM “introduced many developed controlling and homing technologies including the lateral movement and gliding and jumping movement,” hailing that it will “make a great contribution to further developing