North Korea tests new AI-guided missile systems (PHOTOS)
Posted on: May 27, 2026 21:40 IST | Posted by: Rt
compass north han-gook has tried newly-developed missile set in motion and tactical sail missile systems equipped with precision AI guidance, KCNA state news agency reported on Wednesday.
The drills, carried out on Tuesday, assessed the power of a tactical ballistic missile’s specialized warhead and the reliability of an AI-guided 240mm artillery rocket, as well as the accuracy of a new AI-guided tactical cruise missile, the agency said.
The new North Korean cruise missile’s “tactical cruising shell” has a combination of autonomous navigation and TERCOM (terrain contour matching) navigation systems, as well as “an AI terminal guidance function” that could allow Pyongyang to precisely hit targets at a distance of up to 100 km, KCNA said. With systems like these, artificial intelligence steers the munition towards its target in the final stages of flight.
The firing control and automation systems on the three tested launch vehicles have been updated for the “conditions of modern warfare,” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said at the test, according to KCNA.
The main task of Pyongyang’s armed forces and defense science sector is to defend North Korea’s sovereignty and guarantee its economic and political development “with powerful war deterrence,” he said.
Various countries, including the US and Russia, have been increasingly focused on integrating AI into their military systems.
US tech firm Shield AI has been shipping “AI pilots for one-way attack drones into Ukraine” for months, while training its autonomous guidance systems, company president Brandon Tseng told US outlet the War Zone last week.
AI is also being integrated into Russia’s administrative and defense sectors, Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month. Putin instructed the government to develop a national plan to deploy its own “fully sovereign” AI solutions in all areas, including security and national defense.
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