North Korea has unintentionally revealed plans to introduce a new assault rifle that could fire NATO-caliber rounds, an expert has found, in line with the DPRK military’s trend of equipping soldiers with more Western-style arms.

In coverage of Kim Jong Un’s recent visit to a sniper rifle factory, state media carried a photo of the leader pointing at a poster with details about the new assault rifle, while blurring the gun itself and other information.

But Joost Oliemans, an expert on the DPRK military and author of “The Armed Forces of North Korea,” used software to unblur the photo and