North Korea staged live-fire demonstrations of suicide drones, cruise missiles and large-caliber rockets for a drone exhibition attended by leader Kim Jong Un, according to state media on Friday, a day after the U.S., South Korea and Japan offered wildly different estimates of the number of projectiles involved.

The demonstrations on Thursday featured various tactical suicide attack drones, multipurpose unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), tactical cruise missiles and a battalion of 600mm multiple rocket launchers, the ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun reported.

Alongside a large crowd, Kim, his family and senior ruling party and military officials watched the demonstration at