North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has presided over a ceremony to mark the delivery of 250 new tactical ballistic missile launchers to military units at the border.
Adressing the crowds at the ceremony, Kim described the launchers as an up-to-date tactical attack weapon that he had personally designed.
According to reports, North Korea has been expanding its range of mobile short-range weapons designed to overwhelm missile defences in neighbouring South Korea, while also developing intercontinental ballistic missiles designed to reach the continental United States.
In his speech, Kim blamed the US for creating a nuclear-based military block that had forced his country to further strengthen its military capabilities
A spokesperson for Seoul’s Ministry of Unification for handling inter-Korean affairs said it was North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes, pursued in defiance of United Nations sanctions, that were the primary threat to peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.
Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in years, despite a 2018 military agreement designed to reduce tension.
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