North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a major new missile factory, saying that his country’s five-year plan to boost production had been achieved — a key milestone that comes just ahead of his visit to Beijing for a military parade, where he is expected to meet the leaders of China and Russia.
Kim, visiting the factory Sunday, announced that his country had successfully completed a plan laid out in 2021 “to meet the long-term demands for the operation of the state missile forces,” the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said in a report released Monday.
During the visit, Kim “learned in detail about the newly designed automated assembly-line missile production system,” the report said, with the North Korean leader hailing the ongoing “serial production” of “various kinds of missiles” as “the most important core and strategic success achieved by the munitions industry” in developing the country’s defense capabilities.
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