The system’s advantages (…) were tested in indexes such as maneuverability, control, precision, and destructive power, the source indicated without specifying the place where the test was carried out.

The 240 mm multiple rocket launchers were produced by industrial enterprises under the Second Economic Commission, an essential body in the country’s arms development programs.

KCNA announced that Kim, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the State Affairs Commission, ordered the increased production of that artillery system, which has already been tested three times, to be distributed among military units.

The test took place amid rising tensions with South Korea and in the final days of the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises conducted by that country and the United States and considered the largest military training in the Asia-Pacific region.

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