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North Korea test-fires a new tactical guided weapon
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North Korea has test-fired a “new-type tactical guided weapon,” its state media announced Thursday, in a possible attempt to register displeasure with currently deadlocked nuclear talks with the United States without causing those coveted negotiations to collapse.
The country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, observed the firing by the Academy of Defence Science of the unspecified weapon on Wednesday, the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency said. Kim was reported to have said that “the development of the weapon system serves as an event of very weighty significance in increasing the combat power of the People’s Army.”
The Associated Press could not independently verify North Korea’s claim of the weapons test, and it wasn’t immediately clear what had been tested.