N. Korea says it tested new super-large multiple rocket launcher
Kim «guided the test-fire of newly developed super-large multiple rocket launcher on Saturday,» the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in English. «The test-fire proved that all the tactical and technological specifications of the system correctly reached the preset indexes,» Yonhap reports.
The KCNA added that Kim underscored the need to push for «an indomitable offensive campaign» and intensify the development of its own style of strategic and tactical weapons «for resolutely frustrating the ever-mounting military threats and pressure offensive of the hostile forces.»
On Saturday, South Korea's military announced that the North fired two projectiles presumed to be short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast, saying both flew around 380 kilometers at a maximum altitude of 97 km.
Guiding the test, Kim called the rocket launch «a great weapon» and appreciated that «our young national defense scientists are so clever as to conceive out of their own heads and design and complete the weapon system at one go-off although they have never seen it,» according to the KCNA.
The North has rarely described its short-range rockets as «super-large» before.
The North Korean leader also underscored «the need to push ahead with an indomitable offensive campaign ... to step up the development of Korean-style strategic and tactical weapons for resolutely frustrating the ever-mounting military threats and pressure offensive of the hostile forces,» according to the KCNA.
Kim also marked Aug. 24 as «an unforgettable good day,» recalling that on the same day three years ago «we succeeded even in a few strategic underwater ballistic missile test-firing which the world has ever seen,» a reference to the country's firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
The KCNA reported that senior party and military officials, including Ri Pyong-chol and Kim Jong-sik, accompanied the leader's guidance, and the photos the North released showed that the leader's younger sister, Kim Yo-jong, was also at the scene although she was not cited by the media
To give high marks to its new weapon system, the North released Sunday several photo images, showing the mobile rocket launcher, loaded on a military truck and equipped with four launching tubes.
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