Seoul, Nov 16 (UNI) State media said on Friday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a ‘newly developed high-tech tactical’ weapon, without specifying what kind of weapon was tested.
The official Korean Central News Agency said this week’s test, which took place at the Academy of National Defense Science, was successful and that Kim couldn’t suppress his ‘passionate joy.’
“This result today is a justification of the party’s policy focused on defense science and technology, another display of our rapidly growing defense capabilities to the whole region, and a groundbreaking change in strengthening our military’s combat capabilities,” Kim said.
Experts say North Korea has been growing increasingly frustrated with the United States over Washington’s insistence that sanctions would only be lifted at the end of a long process of denuclearization.
Kim said that the weapons system tested was one that his father, Kim Jong II, was especially interested during his lifetime and led the development of personally.
“The State Department declined to comment on the news,” reports The Washington Post.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry said it was the first publicly known field inspection of a weapons test by Kim since he observed the testing of the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile in November of last year.(UNI)
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