Kim defiant after latest round of missile tests

Kim Jong-un has visited a weapons factory in the latest display of the regime’s defiance during an intense round of missile tests.
State media published photographs of the North Korean leader dressed in a long leather coat and smiling as he toured the unnamed factory that is said to manufacture “a major weapon system”. He was accompanied by his younger sister Kim Yo-jong.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) described him as “the respected General Secretary who smashes with his bold pluck the challenges of the US imperialists and their vassal forces that try to violate in every direction our Republic’s right to self-defence”.

The state news agency also released new pictures of Kim visiting the proposed site for a new “vegetable greenhouse farm” in Hamju County in east-central North Korea
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According to the report, “he ardently appealed to workers, technicians, officials and military inspectors of the factory to turn out as