North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un addresses the Supreme People’s Assembly, North Korea’s parliament, which passed a law officially enshrining its nuclear weapons policies, in Pyongyang, North Korea, September 8, 2022 in this photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). (KCNA via REUTERS/File Photo)
SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guided the test-firing of two long-range strategic cruise missiles on Wednesday, state media Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday.
Stressing that the test-fire was another clear warning to its “enemies,” leader Kim Jong Un said the country “should continue to expand the operational sphere of the nuclear strategic armed forces to resolutely deter any crucial military crisis and war crisis at any time and completely take the initiative in it,” according to KCNA.
KCNA also said North Korea’s two missiles test-fired on Wednesday flew for 10,234 seconds to “clearly hit the target 2,000 km (1,240 miles) away.”
The launch of the two cruise missiles was “aimed at further enhancing the combat efficiency and might (of its missiles) … for the operation of tactical nukes and reconfirming the reliability and technical safety of the overall operational application system,” it added.