Kim Jong-un watched weapons test, says North Korean state media

Experts say Pyongyang is stepping up pressure against US after failed nuclear summit

North Korean state media has said leader Kim Jong-un observed a live-fire drill of long-range multiple rocket launchers and unspecified tactical guided weapons. The admission came a day after South Korea’s military detected North Korea launching several unidentified short-range projectiles into the sea off its eastern coast.

Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim expressed “great satisfaction” over Saturday’s drills and stressed that his frontline troops should keep a “high-alert posture” and enhance combat ability to “defend the political sovereignty and economic self-sustenance of the country”.

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