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North Korea tested a solid-fuel rocket engine producing 2,500 kilonewtons of thrust — a 27% increase over its September 2025 test — as part of an accelerating program to field mobile, quick-launch ICBMs capable of reaching the US mainland. The test, the latest in a rapid sequence of solid-fuel milestones dating to late 2022, sharpens questions about the adequacy of US homeland missile defense, which fields 44 interceptors with a roughly 57% success rate in controlled testing, and about whether sanctions-based policy has constrained or inadvertently accelerated Pyongyang's progress.