Click to see full-size image. (The Korean Central News Agency)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un test-fired a newly developed sniper rifle and inspected special forces, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on April 6.
The state-run news agency quotes Kim as saying during a visit to a special operations unit a day earlier that the “actual war capability for guaranteeing victory in the war field is bolstered up through intensive training.”
The leader added that their training is “the most vivid expression of patriotism and loyalty to the country,” according to KCNA.
The agency said that the training was aimed at keeping pace with the changing trend of modern warfare and preparing all combatants to carry out their tasks under any combat.
KNCA also reported that the leader supervised “automatic rifle firing drills and sniper rifle firing drills” and, after personally test-firing the weapon, expressed “great satisfaction over the performance and power of the sniper rifle developed in our own way.”
Images released by the agency showed Kim peering through the scope of the new sniper rifle, which will be soon delivered to special operations units.
Click to see full-size image. (The Korean Central News Agency)
Click to see full-size image. (The Korean Central News Agency)
Click to see full-size image. (The Korean Central News Agency)
Click to see full-size image. (The Korean Central News Agency)
Kim’s visit to the special forces came on the same day that South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld president Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment over his failed martial law declaration, officially sacking him from office and triggering fresh elections.
The only mention in North Korean media of the dismissal of Suk Yeol from office has been the citation of foreign media reports.
South Korea’s public broadcaster KBS aired the view that Pyongyang has been distancing itself from Seoul since it declared inter-Korean relations to be those of two “hostile” states.
Tensions have been building up on the Korean Peninsula since last year, with the North conducting multiple weapon tests every month. While there appears to be no work on de-escalation, a confrontation remains also highly unlikely.
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