Kim Jong-un watched weapons test, says North Korean state media
2019-05-05 09:34:54 source：The Guardian
May 5, 2019
North Korean state media has said leader Kim Jong-un observed a live-fire drill of long-range multiple rocket launchers and unspecified tactical guided weapons. The admission came a day after South Korea’s military detected North Korea launching several unidentified short-range projectiles into the sea off its eastern coast.
Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim expressed “great satisfaction” over Saturday’s drills and stressed that his frontline troops should keep a “high-alert posture” and enhance combat ability to “defend the political sovereignty and economic self-sustenance of the country”.
Earlier South Korea has issued a stern rebuke to Pyongyang for escalating military tensions on the divided peninsula for firing what it called a series of “unidentified short-range projectiles” into the sea.
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