North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised his second live-fire artillery exercise in a week, state media says.
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a military drill at an undisclosed location in North Korea on Monday, March 9, 2020. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified.
The report by Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency came a day after South Korea’s military detected the launches of three short-range projectiles off the North’s eastern coast. Pyongyang’s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper published photos of rockets blasting out of multiple-rocket launchers and striking what appeared to be an island target.
Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the projectiles fired from the eastern coastal town of Sondok flew as far as 200 kilometers at a maximum altitude of 50 kilometers before landing in the waters between the Korean Peninsula andKim also oversaw artillery exercises on Feb. 28 and March 2 as the country resumed weapons tests for the first time since November, a lull that some experts say could have been caused by the country's toughened preventive measures to fend off COVID-19.
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