Kim Jong Un attended a live-shell firing exercise at a site close to the South Korea border, pictures released by Workers’ Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun revealed on Tuesday.

In a front page feature, the Rodong Sinmun showed Kim Jong Un supervising Korean Peoples’ Army Unit 171 in the test launching of the rockets, which were launched at a nearby mountain range as Kim Jong Un watches from an observation post.

An editorial in state news outlet KCNA reported that the Supreme Leader had “mounted an observation post to learn about the plan for the exercise and the deployment of multiple launch rocket