North Korea Test-Fires ‘Super-Large’ Rocket Launchers

By Staff, Agencies

North Korea confirmed a “successful” firing of rockets to test “super-large” rocket launchers.

The North’s KCNA news agency confirmed on Monday that the country had fired rockets with the launchers a day earlier to test their “tactical and technological specifications.”

“The test-fire was conducted successfully,” KCNA said in its report.

“The operational deployment of the weapon system of super-large multiple rocket launchers is a crucial work of very great significance in realizing a new strategic intention of the Party Central Committee for national defense.”

On Sunday, South Korean and Japanese radars had picked up the launch of two unidentified projectiles into the ocean off North Korea’s east coast.

Since December last year, North Korea has test-fired multiple rockets and missiles. Back then, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ended a moratorium on the country’s missile tests and said North Korea would soon develop a “new strategic weapon.”

The ending of the moratorium came because Pyongyang had been offered no sanctions relief by the United States despite several unilateral measures aimed at demilitarization.