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N. Korea manufacturing own light aircraft

North Korean-produced aircraft reproductions of foreign designs

North Korea is manufacturing its own light aircraft based on foreign designs, state media reports revealed Wednesday.

Photographs in Pyongyang’s state-run Rodong Sinmun revealed that North Korea is indigenously producing light aircraft in at least two models of foreign origin at a machine plant managed by Jon Tong Ryol. Kim previously visited this facility in August, though photographs released at the time showed no aircraft.

The plant manufactures at least two models of light fixed-wing aircraft: a North Korean copy of the An-2light utility biplane, originally designed by Ukrainian (formerly Soviet) aerospace company Antonov; and a plane very