首尔消息：朝鲜领导人金正恩的妹妹、权势显赫的金与正于10月3日周六发表声明称，朝鲜当天成功试射了一枚中程战略导弹。
SEOUL: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said in a statement on Saturday (Oct 3) that her country had tested an intermediate-range strategic missile.
韩国军方当天早些时候称，朝鲜向东部沿海海域发射了一枚飞行距离超过700公里的弹道导弹。
The South Korean military said earlier on Saturday that North Korea fired a ballistic missile which flew more than 700km toward the sea off its east coast.
作为朝鲜劳动党重要负责人的金与正表示，此次使用中程导弹在东部海域开展的实弹演习属于“战略武器”测试。她还称，此次演习由一支专门执行特殊任务的火力分队实施，金正恩亲自进行了现场指挥。
Kim Yo Jong, who is a director of North Korea's ruling party, said a drill of a "strategic weapon" was conducted toward the sea off its east coast using the intermediate-range missile. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the drill which was carried out by "a firepower sub-unit undertaking an exclusive special mission", his sister said.
金与正援引韩国与日本方面公布的导弹飞行距离数据指出，这些数据恰恰暴露了两国导弹追踪能力的局限性。她声称：“每当我们对导弹采用波浪式弹道模式后，敌方就完全无法从第一次弹跳点开始追踪目标”，不过并未提供任何佐证材料。
Citing statements by Seoul and Tokyo regarding how far the missile flew, she said that their results showed the limitations of their tracking capability. "Whenever we applied the wave-like trajectory mode to missiles, the enemy failed to track the targets from their first skip points," she said, without showing any evidence.
她还要求韩日两国必须正视该导弹的飞行速度，但并未透露具体数值。据她介绍，此次发射的导弹还搭载了人工智能技术，可在低空环境下灵活调整飞行轨迹。
South Korea and Japan also "should acknowledge the speed of the missile", she said without disclosing the speed. The missile was also capable of changing its flight orbit at a low altitude with artificial intelligence technology applied, she added.
“换言之，这意味着任何防御手段都难以抵挡此次攻击。”金与正强调道。
"In other words, this means that there is no way to avoid this attack," she said.
今年以来，朝鲜已累计实施十余次导弹试射。平壤方面多次宣称这些测试旨在验证新型武器系统的性能。部分试射行动正值朝鲜对韩美联合军演表达强烈不满之际。
North Korea has launched missile tests on more than 10 occasions so far this year. Pyongyang has sometimes said it was testing new types of weapons systems. Some of the tests have come after North Korea protested joint military drills between Seoul and Washington.
此次发射行动发生前一天，金与正曾发表声明驳斥韩方要求朝鲜就“非军事区地雷炸伤韩军士兵”事件道歉的诉求，称韩方指控毫无事实依据。
The launch came after Kim Yo Jong issued a statement on Friday that dismissed Seoul's demand for an apology for what it said were North Korean mines that seriously wounded South Korean soldiers in the Demilitarized Zone, a heavily fortified area between the two Koreas.