North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen a ceremony marking the transfer of 250 tactical ballistic missile launchers to the country’s border with South Korea, according to state media.
At an “historic event” in the North Korean capital Pyongyang on Sunday, Kim inspected the new attack weapons that it was claimed he had “personally designed,” and which he said were part of the rapid and ongoing development of North Korea’s self-defense capabilities, state news agency KCNA reported.
The launchers will be used to attack or threaten the South, Col. Lee Sung-joon, a spokesperson for Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in remarks reported by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
Placing the missile launchers close to the border area on the divided peninsula indicates they are designed for short-range launches, the South Korean military added.