North Korean state media on Sunday showed leader Kim Jong Un observing live-fire drills of long-range multiple rocket launchers and what appeared to be a new short-range ballistic missile, a day after South Korea expressed concern that the launches were a violation of an inter-Korean agreement to cease
Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said Kim expressed"great satisfaction" over Saturday's drills and stressed that his front-line troops should keep a"high alert posture" and enhance combat ability to"defend the political sovereignty and economic self-sustenance of the country."
In its updated assessment on Sunday, the JCS did not confirm whether the North fired a ballistic missile, but said a"new tactical guided weapon" was among the weapons tested by the North, which also included 240 millimeter- and 300 millimeter-caliber multiple rocket launchers. The JCS said the various projectiles flew from 70 to 240 kilometers before splashing into sea.
The North Korean missile appeared to be modeled after Russia's 9K720 Iskander mobile short-range ballistic missile system, said Kim Dong-yub, an analyst from Seoul's Institute for Far Eastern Studies. The solid-fuel North Korean missile was first revealed in a military parade in Pyongyang in February last year and is likely the unspecified tactical weapon the North said it tested last month, he said.
The distance between Wonsan, where the launch was held, and the South Korean capital of Seoul is roughly 200 kilometers .
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