North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised firing drills involving nuclear-capable “super-large” multiple rocket launchers to show the country’s ability to carry out pre-emptive attacks on South Korea, state media has reported.
The North’s Korean Central News Agency reported its latest weapons tests are meant to demonstrate that the country will not to hesitate to launch a pre-emptive strike on South Korea, if threatened. That refers to a South Korean aerial exercise performed hours before North Korea’s failed attempt on Monday to launch a second spy satellite into orbit.
Photos released by state media showed Mr Kim watching from a distance as at least 18 projectiles were fired from launch trucks. South Korea’s military earlier said North Korea fired about 10 suspected ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast.
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