Kim Jong-un has directed North Korea’s military to reorganize its artillery forces around long-range rocket systems, a shift that state media described as central to future conventional and nuclear strike plans. The inspection of a major munitions industry enterprise producing multiple rocket launcher systems took place on December 28 and was publicly reported on December 30 by official outlets, as Pyongyang steps up preparations for the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, where a new phase of defense development is expected to be endorsed. Read more.
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| The system in question is widely believed to be the 600 mm multiple rocket launcher, a heavy rocket artillery platform that occupies a doctrinal space between traditional MLRS and short-range ballistic missiles (Picture source: KCNA). |