This was reported by TASS with reference to the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea (CTAC).

“The Commander-in-Chief of the DPRK Armed Forces, the highest leader of our party, state and armed forces, Comrade Kim Jong-un, led the exercises on February 28,” the text says.

It is specified that in the course of the exercises the application of the combined fire strike was practiced.

In November 2019, South Korea protested the DPRK in connection with coastal artillery exercises.