North Korea's Kim oversees cruise missile launch

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SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visited a navy unit and oversaw a strategic cruise missile test, state media reported on Monday, ahead of the start of joint military drills between South Korea and the United States.Kim inspected one of his fleets in the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, and watched as the crew staged a drill launching 'strategic cruise missiles,' state-run news agency KCNA reported.

AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNSPyongyang views such exercises as rehearsals for an invasion and has repeatedly warned it would take 'overwhelming' action in response.Suspected North Korean hackers have already targeted the exercises, with email attacks on South Korean contractors working at the allies' combined exercise war simulation centre, police have said.

 

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