here is the new multiple rocket launcher –

More weapons tests in North Korea. Kim Jong Un continues to want to demonstrate that he is strengthening his arsenal. The North Korean leader attended the test of a “240 mm multiple rocket launcher” that the North Korean agency KCNA says is “updated on the technical profile in its maneuverability and concentrated fire capacity”. Upgrades that have proven to be “advantageous in all parameters, including a new guidance system, controllability and destructive power”. Only in recent days, Kim’s latest order was to strengthen the development and production of attack drones. The North Korean leader, KCNA reported, supervised tests organized by Pyongyang’s Academy of Defense Sciences on Saturday.

All this against a backdrop of ongoing tensions in the region. Yesterday, a South Korean lawmaker cited an intelligence report that North Korea has sent more than 13,000 containers, likely loaded with weapons, to Russia since mid-2022, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February that year. According to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, more than six million artillery shells may have been delivered. Pyongyang and Moscow have recently strengthened military ties, and Kim and Russian leader Vladimir Putin signed a “strategic partnership” pact in June. The winds of war are still blowing very strongly.