SEOUL - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Sunday held in Pyongyang a ceremony marking an official transfer of new tactical ballistic missile systems to its front-line military units, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Monday.

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The ceremony involved 250 new-type tactical ballistic missile launchers produced at the country's major munitions manufacturers to be transferred to front-line troops, said the report.

Having declared an important task for bolstering the country's military has been successfully carried out, 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, stressed that independence, justice and peace can only be firmly guaranteed by "the absolute and matchless self-defence capability," according to the report.