North Korean leader Kim supervises 'new-type tactical guided weapon' test

Source: The Hill | April 17, 2019 | Rebecca Kheel

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised the test firing of a “new-type tactical guided weapon,” North Korean state media said Wednesday, without elaborating on what exactly the weapon is.

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said that Kim called the weapon’s development “an event of very weighty significance.”

“Saying that the completion of the development of the weapon system serves as an event of very weighty significance in increasing the combat power of the People’s Army, [Kim] noted that it is a very good thing that the field of national defense science has waged a dynamic struggle for attaining core research goals,” KCNA said, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.

“After watching the power of the new-type tactical guided weapon, [Kim] pointed out that our national defense scientists and workers in the field of the munitions industry performed another great work in increasing the country’s defense capabilities,” KCNA said.

The announcement of the test comes as Pyongyang and Washington continue to struggle to find a way forward on nuclear negotiations following Kim and President Trump’s failed second summit in February. 

Trump has said he is in no rush to reach an agreement on nuclear negotiations as long as North Korea continues its moratorium on missile and nuclear tests.

KCNA did not specify whether Wednesday’s test was of a missile, but it did not immediately appear to violate the moratorium, much like a North Korean test of an “ultramodern tactical weapon” in November.

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