Pyongyang: North Korea has said on Friday it tested long-range missile drills under the supervision of ‘Senior leader’, Kim Jong-un, from the western military units.
According to ANI news reports, the conduct of long-range missile came a day after North Korea launched projectiles, presumed to be short-range missiles tests into the East Sea.
State-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) stated, “The senior leader, the commanding officer, had complied with the thermal training plan of several long-range hitting means and issued an order to commence thermal hitting training.”
The news agency further said the leader, Kim, presented important “directional tasks” to further bolster and develop the ability of North Korea’s People’s Army and Western Front Defence units to strike fire.
It also said the test was to prepare the communist country for the martial mobilization to cope with any injustice.
North Korea has on Thursday testes unidentified projectiles at 4:30 pm approximately from the Sino-ri region in the eastern direction into the East Sea, which flew around 420 km and 270 km respectively, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
This development came after five days when the nation fired its multiple short-range missiles from the Wonsan region into the East Sea.
The United States officials, including special representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun, and officials from Japan are currently in South Korea to discuss and pave ways to resume stalled nuclear talks with North Korea.
US President Donald Trump and Kim held their second denuclearization summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, but however, the summit ended abruptly due to both leader’s differences as Trump focused over Kim’s last year commitment of full and complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and Kim stressed over the US sanctions relief.