South Korea has deployed a new tactical missile system designed to precisely target North Korea’s long-range artillery and command centers in the event of conflict, the Joint Chiefs of Staff announced Tuesday. 

The Korean Tactical Surface-to-Surface Missile (KTSSM), officially nicknamed “Ure (우레),” meaning thunder, is an advanced precision-guided weapon system designed to quickly neutralize North Korean long-range artillery threatening the greater Seoul metropolitan area, according to the JCS press release.  

The military also stated that the system can be fitted with thermobaric warheads (열압력탄두), which are designed to destroy tunnels and other hardened underground structures.

The weapon was domestically developed