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I wanted to start the news at 8 o'clock on the first day of the new year with bright news, but before the first year even rose, North Korea fired a super-large multiple rocket launcher.

It has a range of 400 km.

Secretary General Kim Jong-un defined our side as an obvious enemy and insisted on increasing the number of nuclear warheads exponentially.



First news, Ahn Jung-sik is a reporter specializing in North Korea.



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600mm super-large multiple rocket launchers are 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 super-large multiple rocket launcher 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 blatantly threatened nuclear weapons against South Korea, saying that tactical nuclear weapons could be mounted on super-large multiple rocket launchers.



[Chosun Central TV: (The super-large multiple rocket launcher) is said to be able to mount tactical nuclear weapons with all of South Korea in range.]



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



Threats against South Korea continued at the year-end Labor Party plenary meeting held until yesterday.



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 are approaching us as an unquestionable enemy.]



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



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

[Report of Kim Jong-un Labor Party plenary meeting: Our (North Korea) nuclear



force will carry out its second mission if deterrence fails, and it is clear that the second mission is something other than defense.]



By ordering the development of another ICBM, it revealed its will to develop a solid fuel ICBM, and announced that it would launch a military reconnaissance satellite in the shortest period of time.



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



North Korea dismissed Park Jeong-cheon, who was number one in the military, as party secretary and vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, and appointed Defense Minister Ri Yong-gil as his successor.



(Video editing: Lee Sang-min)