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Kim Jong-un said yesterday that he was watching the launch of a new tactical grenade. North Korea has called the launch a force demonstration and stressed it is a warning against the ROK-US Combined Forces training.

It is Kim Ai-young journalist on the sidewalk.

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The Chosun Central News Agency said yesterday that Kim Jong-un witnessed the launch of a force demonstration of a new tactical grenade conducted at the western airfield early morning.

It also released 16 photographs of the launch scene, which appears to have fired a North Korean Iskander-class missile.

The news agency says two tactical grenades flew over the metropolitan area and over North Korea's central inland zone, precisely hitting the target islands of the East Sea.

Kim said the launch was satisfactory and that it would be an opportunity to send warnings against ROK-US joint military exercises.

Yesterday, the Foreign Ministry spokesman reiterated his opposition to ROK-US combined training.

North Korea stressed that the reliability, safety and practical capabilities of the new tactical guided weapons system were undoubtedly verified.

Kim also took a commemorative photo with a scientist and concluded that he actually completed the testing phase of the weapons he has developed.

North Korea said it will launch a new Iskander-class missile last month, and deploy a new weapons system.

At the launch site, not only Park Byung-cheon, Artillery Director and General Director Young-gil Lee, but also unusually nine party leaders including Park Bong-ju, Lee Man-gun, Park Kwang-ho, and Lee Su-yong attended.