North Korean
leader Kim Jong-Un watched a ballistic missile launch test and ordered the
country to improve nuclear attack capability by continuing to conduct more
tests, the official KCNA news agency reported today.
The report did not say when the test took place but it was likely referring to the launch of two short-range missiles by North Korea on Thursday that flew 500 km (300 miles) and splashed into the sea.
"Dear comrade Kim Jon-Un said work ... must be strengthened to improve nuclear attack capability and issued combat tasks to continue nuclear explosion tests to assess the power of newly developed nuclear warheads and tests to improve nuclear attack capability," KCNA said.
The report did not say when the test took place but it was likely referring to the launch of two short-range missiles by North Korea on Thursday that flew 500 km (300 miles) and splashed into the sea.
"Dear comrade Kim Jon-Un said work ... must be strengthened to improve nuclear attack capability and issued combat tasks to continue nuclear explosion tests to assess the power of newly developed nuclear warheads and tests to improve nuclear attack capability," KCNA said.
Tension rose sharply on the Korean peninsula after the North conducted
its fourth nuclear test in January and fired a long-range rocket last month
leading to the UN Security Council to adopt a new sanctions resolution.
Conducting more nuclear tests would be in clear
violation of UN sanctions which also ban ballistic missile tests, although
Pyongyang has rejected them. North Korea has a large stockpile of short-range
missiles and is developing long-range and intercontinental missiles.
The North Korean leader was quoted in state media on Wednesday as saying that his country had miniaturised nuclear warheads to mount on ballistic missiles. South Korea said it did not believe that North Korea had successfully miniaturised a nuclear warhead or deployed a functioning intercontinental ballistic missile.
The North Korean leader was quoted in state media on Wednesday as saying that his country had miniaturised nuclear warheads to mount on ballistic missiles. South Korea said it did not believe that North Korea had successfully miniaturised a nuclear warhead or deployed a functioning intercontinental ballistic missile.