The Missile Administration of the DPRK conducted a test-fire on January 27 to verify the effectiveness of a large-calibre multiple rocket launcher system upgraded with new technology.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, oversaw the test-fire.

He was accompanied by Kim Jong Sik, first deputy department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration of the DPRK.

Expressing satisfaction over the result of the important test, he said:

"Today's test is of great significance in improving the effectiveness of our strategic deterrent.

“That is because we have achieved technical upgrading of this weapon system to employ its most powerful characteristics in a most appropriate and effective way, and thus made it possible to apply it in specific attacks.

“All the indexes have been improved to maximize its strike capability, and the mobility, intelligence and hitting accuracy of the rockets, in particular, have remarkably been upgraded.