SEOUL, May 28, (APP/AFP) – North Korean leader Kim
Jong-Un has overseen a test of a new anti-aircraft weapon system, state media said Sunday, amid mounting tensions in the region following a series of missile tests by Pyongyang.
Over the past few months, the young leader has overseen several
military drills, including the test-firing of a medium-range ballistic missile last Sunday, as Washington seeks to ramp up pressure on Pyongyang to curb its nuclear ambitions.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim “watched the
test of a new-type anti-aircraft guided weapon system”, which was aimed at
“detecting and striking different targets flying from any direction”.
KCNA did not give the exact date and location of the drill.
Pyongyang first tested the new weapon system in April last year when
some defects had been discovered, but Kim said the latest test verified that all glitches had been “perfectly overcome”, KCNA said.
The efficiency of the weapon system “to detect and track targets has
remarkably improved and its hitting accuracy has also increased” compared to
last year, the young leader was quoted as saying.
Expressing his satisfaction, Kim said: “(It) should be mass-produced
to deploy in all over the country like forests so as to completely spoil the
enemy’s wild dream to command the air, boasting of air supremacy and weapon
almighty.”