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Even before the first year of the new year, North Korea fired a super-large multiple rocket launcher that covers all of South Korea.

Secretary General Kim Jong-un defined South Korea as an obvious enemy and insisted on increasing nuclear warheads.

Since the beginning of the new year, North Korea has been raising tensions on the Korean Peninsula. 



The first news, Ahn Jung-sik, a reporter specializing in North Korea, reports.



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] 600mm super-large multiple rocket launchers lined up in front of the headquarters of the Party Central Committee in Pyongyang.



North Korea announced that the munitions working class presented 30 super-large multiple rocket launchers to the party, and that additional units were delivered to the People's Army units.



The first anti-missile cannon has a range of around 400 km and is a weapon that North Korea can hit from near the armistice line to Busan.



Secretary General Kim Jong-un bluntly threatened South Korea with nuclear weapons, saying that he could mount tactical nuclear weapons on super-large multiple rocket launchers.



[Chosun Central TV: (Super-large multiple rocket launchers) have all of South Korea in range and can even mount tactical nuclear weapons.]



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The Joint Chiefs of Staff announced that North Korea fired short-range missiles at dawn yesterday, the first day of the New Year, following the day before yesterday (31st), and North Korea said it was a inspection shot from a super-large multiple rocket launcher.



At the Labor Party plenary meeting at the end of last year, threats against South Korea continued.



Secretary General Kim specifically defined South Korea as an obvious enemy.



[Report of the plenary meeting of Kim Jong-un's Workers' Party: The current situation in which the South Korean puppets approached as our unquestionable enemy.]



Secretary General Kim ordered the mass production of tactical nuclear weapons and an exponential increase in the stock of nuclear warheads.



He also reiterated his intention to use nuclear weapons for attack in case of emergency.



He revealed his will to develop solid-fuel ICBMs by directing the development of another ICBM targeting a rapid nuclear counterattack, and stated that he would launch a military reconnaissance satellite in the shortest possible time.



There was no indication of a willingness to engage in dialogue with the United States or South Korea.



(Video editing: Choi Eun-jin)