Seoul, July 5 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen tests of strategic cruise missiles and other weapons from a new 5,000-tonne naval destroyer, ordering the warship to be commissioned into the Navy within two months, state media reported Sunday.Kim observed tests of cruise missiles, naval artillery, automatic guns, and electronic warfare means from the destroyer Kang Kon on Friday, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).In June last year, North Korea launched the destr…
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Pyongyang, June 26 (IANS) North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has overseen tests of multiple firepower systems in a bid to modernise the country’s artillery and missile forces, the official Korean Central News Agency said Friday.The tests, on Thursday, involved the upgraded 240 mm-calibre 24-tubular multiple rocket launcher system, tactical ballistic missile, and 155mm self-propelled gun-howitzer shells with an extended firing range, the report said.The upgraded rocket launcher system emplo…
Seoul, June 24 (IANS) North Korea has commissioned a new 5,000-ton destroyer with leader Kim Jong-un voicing expectations that the Navy’s combat capabilities will be strengthened to a level “admirable beyond imagination,” state media reported on Wednesday.Kim made the remarks the previous day at a commissioning ceremony for the “new-type multi-mission” destroyer Choe Hyon at the western port of Nampho, reports Yonhap, quoting the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).The ceremony came as the North u…
Seoul, May 8 (IANS) North Korea plans to deploy a new self-propelled howitzer along its border with South Korea by the end of this year, state media said Friday, as it seeks to bolster its defence capabilities.According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a munitions factory Wednesday to review production of a “new-type 155 mm self-propelled gun-howitzer” destined for three battalions to be stationed at a long-range artillery unit along the “southern…
Seoul, April 14 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen a test-firing of strategic cruise and anti-warship missiles from the destroyer Choe Hyon, stressing the country’s top priority is to bolster a nuclear war deterrent ‘without limit,’ state media reported Tuesday.North Korea conducted the launches of two strategic cruise missiles and three anti-warship missiles from the naval destroyer Sunday in its “operational efficiency test,” according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)….