In a rare shot released by KCNA, the North Korean news agency, his wife Ri Sol-ju appears alongside Kim Jong-un.
Both wear military green jackets and plug their ears to cover the din during one of the latest rocket launches.
According to some observers, Ms. Kim's participation denotes a change in her political status.
According to others, appearing alongside her husband, she underlines the importance of proceeding with the tests despite a difficult moment for the country with the economy perpetually in need of a breakdown.
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Kim Jong-un and his wife
On the day when Pyongyang celebrates the 77th anniversary of the Founding of the Workers' Party, while hundreds of citizens bring flowers to the statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, Rodong Sinmun dedicates a detailed account of the " military operations ”of the last few weeks accompanied by photographic shots of the salient moments.
Wearing a white jacket and large straw hat on his head or in military uniform, Kim Jong-un - who hasn't appeared in public for about a month - supervises rocket launches, poses with soldiers, gives orders, talks while others take notes.
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Kim Jong-un
He inspected "the training of tactical nuclear weapons units", led the simulation of heavy strikes in a "nuclear capabilities warning" initiative aimed at the US and South Korea, provided "field guidance" to exercises that were conducted from 25 September to 9 October, while Washington and Seoul were organizing their joint large-scale naval maneuvers in the Sea of Japan involving the aircraft carrier Uss Ronald Reagan, an Aegis destroyer and a nuclear-powered submarine, the report.
And again, Kim led missile tests - including one submarine-launched ballistic (SLBM) and another "new" intermediate-range ballistic (IRBM) that flew over Japan - as a "warning and response to joint US military exercises." South Korea, "the newspaper reported.
"The continuing intentional and irresponsible aggravation of tensions by the US and the South Korean regime will inevitably trigger a more serious response" and for this "we must send more defined signals with more powerful and resolute will and actions to the enemy", the leader said. , specifying that he has no interest in dialogue with Washington or Seoul.
Indeed, overseeing simulated nuclear attacks on airports and missile attacks on South Korean seaports, Kim has promised further demonstrations of his nuclear capabilities to discourage Washington, while fears grow that the North may soon conduct its seventh atomic detonation.
The Pyongyang regime has launched seven ballistic missiles in the past two weeks.
One of these bullets flew over Japan for the first time since 2017. And the international community expects North Korea to carry out a nuclear test soon, the first in five years.
The North Korean leader made acquiring tactical nuclear weapons his priority in January 2021, during a party congress, and promised, in late April, to develop the country's nuclear forces "to the fullest extent possible." .
Faced with this growing threat, the United States, South Korea and Japan have stepped up their military cooperation.
The three countries have conducted extensive naval and air exercises around the Korean peninsula in recent weeks, including the deployment of the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan.