Kim Jong Un Celebrates Testing of New Weapons

By The Blaze. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un praised his administration after reports of a successful test firing of a “new tactical guided” weapons system.

Kim called the development of the weapon “an event of very weighty significance,” according to the Korean Central News Agency.

The KCNA reported that Un supervised the firing of the weapon.

“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,” they said.

President Donald Trump has had two meetings with the North Korean leader but neither have produced a substantive agreement on the goal of “denuclearization” of the regime. (Read more from “Kim Jong Un Celebrates Testing of New Weapons” HERE)

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North Korean Leader Kim Supervises ‘New-Type Tactical Guided Weapon’ Test

By The Hill. “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. . .

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.

The February summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, ended without an agreement between the two leaders amid an impasse over how much sanctions relief the United States was willing to give and how much North Korea was willing to give up to get it. . .

Last week, Kim said he would be open to a third summit with Trump, but gave the United States until the end of the year to be more flexible in negotiations. (Read more from “North Korean Leader Kim Supervises ‘New-Type Tactical Guided Weapon’ Test” HERE)

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