There's no need for air breathing, or other, thrust for this. Maneuverable reentry vehicles have existed for quite a while. We can call them hypersonics for nationalistic reasons but the speed is only achieved after the atmosphere and very briefly in it going down.

If the goal is to avoid looking like an ICBM trajectory to avoid the other nation states thinking it's a nuclear attack then it makes sense. But it's still not achieveable for long periods of flight so the ICBM is required regardless.