North Korea fires Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM)

Context

Recently, North Korea fired a Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) from off its East Coast.

Key -points

• It is a rocket-propelled self-guided strategic-weapons system that follows a ballistic trajectory to deliver a payload from its launch site to a predetermined target.
• Ballistic trajectory is the path of an unpowered object, as a missile, moving only under the influence of gravity and possibly atmospheric friction and with its surface providing no significant lift to alter the course of flight.
• It can carry high-performance conventional explosives as well as chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons.

Follow the Code of Conduct

• The International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (ICOC), now known as the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC), is a political system aimed at curbing the spread of ballistic missiles.
• India has signed the agreement.
• Established in April 1987, the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) voluntarily aims to limit the spread of ballistic missiles and other unauthorized delivery systems that can be used for chemical, biological and nuclear attacks.
• India has joined the MTCR.

Some of India's Ballistic missiles

• Agni P missile
• Shaurya missile
• Prithvi missile
• Dhanush
• Sagarika