North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country¡¯s test of a ¡°new-type¡± of guided missile Tuesday was a warning over joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises, state media said Wednesday, amid fears of a possible return to 2017¡¯s ramped-up pace of weapons testing and threats of ¡°fire and fury.¡±
The North¡¯s official Korean Central News Agency said in a report that Kim had overseen the test-firing of the ¡°tactical guided missiles¡± from an airfield in the country¡¯s west that saw the weapons fly across the country and over the capital, Pyongyang, ¡°to precisely hit¡± an island target in the Sea of Japan.
¡°The demonstration fire clearly verified the reliability, security and actual war capacity of the new-type tactical guided weapon system,¡± KCNA reported.
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