Missile Administration Test-fires Newly-developed Air-defence Missile

Pyongyang, November 5 (KCNA) -- The Missile Administration of the DPRK test-fired a newly-designed advanced air-defence missile system to confirm its technical specifications on Nov. 4.

Full General Kim Jong Sik, member of the Central Military Commission and first vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, guided the test-fire together with leading officials of the administration and national defence science research field.

The test-fire proved the technical specifications and reliability of the new material and intelligent multiple guided mode of the projectile, target identification and tracking capability of the air-defence missile system and its detection information processing device.

On the same day, a firepower sub-unit under the long-range strategic cruise missile unit in the eastern area gave a fire strike drill demonstration.

The sub-unit involved in the drill perfectly performed its mission to strike a virtual airport target with a long-range strategic cruise missile.

The relevant test and drill are an extension of obligatory activities of the national defence and military sectors at all levels to put the combat systems on a technically high level and improve the combat reliability of the strategic weapon. -0-