April 26, 2024
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Kim Jong Un attended ballistic missile drill – state media

Test-firing of Scud missiles condemned by South Korea, Japan

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un attended a morning missile testing event on North Korea's western coast, state media outlet the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Thursday.

Smoking a cigarette in the dark of night, Kim was pictured by KCNA inspecting a map of the Korean peninsula at an unspecified test-firing location.

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