“Kim Jong-un inspected the testing of a newly developed high-tech tactical weapon at the Academy of National Defence Science,” the KCNA reported.
Kim and militants gathered at the testing base. Picture released by North Korean state.
This is North Korea’s first official report of a weapons test in a year and the KCNA news agency gave no details on the type of the weapon, saying only it had been developed over a long period. In a summit in June Mr Kim and US President Donald Trump agreed that the Koreans should denuclearise, but no official plan or procedure was put in place. The South Koreans say they are in the process of discovering what the weapon is, but many have pointed out that North Korea never made any official commitments to discontinue any weapons development or shut down its missile bases.
The Korean news agency added that Kim showed “great satisfaction” over the “state-of-the-art” weapon that “builds impregnable defences of our country and strengthens the fighting power of our people’s army”.
