Under the supervision of Kim Jong Un ... North Korea is testing a new tactical weapon

North Korea's official media revealed on Sunday that the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, had personally supervised the testing of a newly developed "guided weapon", which came a day after South Korea announced that its northern neighbor apparently launched two short-range ballistic missiles. .

The North Korean Central News Agency said that leader Kim supervised the launch experience, adding that "the launch aims to re-inform the leaders of the Korean People's Army officers about the tactical features and the strength of the new weapon system, which will be handed over to the army units."

She added that the launch clearly demonstrated the accuracy and strength of ballistics, in a third of its kind for Pyongyang this year.

The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff announced on Saturday - according to the South Korean Yonhap News Agency - that the North launched launches from areas near the town of "Suncheon" located in the North "Pyong An" province, where the missiles flew for 410 kilometers, and reached a height of fifty Kilometers.

The South Korean army condemned the launches, describing them as "totally inappropriate" given the difficult situation the world is witnessing as a result of the new Corona virus (Covid-19), and appealed to the northern neighbor to stop immediately.

For its part, the Japanese coast guard said on Saturday that North Korea appeared to have launched a missile that fell outside the waters of the Japanese Special Economic Zone.

International criticism
For decades, the leadership in Pyongyang has faced criticism from the international community for placing military and nuclear spending as a priority rather than spending on its citizens even during the famine period.

Pyongyang considers military spending a security necessity to counter what it calls "American aggression." And it is subject to a series of sanctions against the background of its nuclear and missile programs.

The brilliance of any breakthrough eased after the meetings of the North Korean leader and US President Donald Trump, after their failure to reach any substantive progress on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, while Pyongyang has since continued to develop its military capabilities.

Through the recent missile test, the professor at Iowa University in Seoul, Lev-eric Easley, told the French press, “Pyongyang continues its international strategy of normalizing its missile tests.”