Published: 10:33, August 26, 2024 | Updated: 12:29, August 26, 2024
Report: Top DPRK leader oversaw drone performance test
By Xinhua
This picture taken on Aug 24, 2024 and released by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on Aug 26 shows the top leader of the DPRK Kim Jong-un (front center) inspecting a performance test of drones organized by the Drone Institute of the Academy of Defense Sciences at an undisclosed location in the DPRK. (PHOTO BY KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) 

SEOUL - The top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) oversaw on Saturday a drone performance test organized by the Drone Institute of the Academy of Defense Sciences, the DPRK's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Monday.

Kim Jong-un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, got first-hand information on the drones currently being developed, which are intended to strike enemy forces on the ground and at sea, the report said.

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During the test, drones of various types accurately identified and destroyed the designated targets after following different preset flight routes, it added.

Noting that developing different types of drones and enhancing their combat capabilities play an important role in war preparations, the DPRK leader stressed the need to ramp up drone development and production, urging more intensive testing of their combat applications and the swift equipping of military units with them, the report said.