North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his young daughter, inspected new pistols and rifles on Wednesday, highlighting efforts to expand small arms production in his first visit to a weapons factory since the adoption of a new five-year military development plan at the recent Ninth Party Congress.

Citing a defense ministry report, Kim praised the “truly excellent” new pistols’ “superior structural functioning, accuracy, concentration and combat usability,” the ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun reported Thursday.

State media did not give details about the new handguns, but stated that the unspecified factory began production in accordance with a new