This undated picture released from DPRK's official Korean Central News Agency on Jan 28, 2022 shows DPRK top leader Kim Jong-un (centre) inspecting a munitions factory producing a major weapon system at an undisclosed location. (STR / AFP / KCNA VIA KNS)
NEW YORK – The Democratic People's Republic of Korea conducted weapons tests this week as DPRK top leader Kim Jong-un inspected a munitions factory producing a major weapon system, the Korean Central News Agency reported on Friday.
The DPRK conducted a test-fire of a long-range cruise missile and test-fire of a surface-to-surface tactical guided missile on Tuesday and Thursday respectively, according to the report.
The weapon tests were guided by the Department of the Munitions Industry of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Academy of Defence Science
The weapon tests were guided by the Department of the Munitions Industry of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Academy of Defence Science, it added.
In the test-fire for updating the long-range cruise missile system conducted on Tuesday, two long-range cruise missiles flew over the East Sea of Korea to hit the target island about 1,800 km away, KCNA said.
During Thursday's test, the power of the conventional warhead for the surface-to-surface tactical guided missile was confirmed, with two tactical guided missiles precisely hitting the target island, it added.
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Thursday's test-fire is the sixth missile test Pyongyang has conducted since Jan 5. The previous tests include hypersonic missiles, railway-borne ballistic missiles, tactical guided missiles and cruise missiles.
This picture taken on Jan 25, 2022 and released from DPRK's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on January 28 shows what DPRK says is a long-range cruise missile test-fire conducted by the Academy of Defence Science of the DPRK at an undisclosed location.
(STR / AFP / KCNA VIA KNS)
Meanwhile, Kim praised the munitions factory's leading role in collective innovation after learning in detail about its recent modernization of technology and production processes, KCNA reported.
He said the factory holds an important position and duty in modernizing the country's armed forces and realizing the national defense development strategy, urging staff to continuously develop the factory into an iconic one symbolic of the modernity of the country's defense industry, it added.
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