SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has unveiled a battery of huge nuclear-capable rocket launchers ahead of a key congress of the nation’s ruling party, state media said Thursday.
Kim is expected to detail the next phase in North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme when he opens a rare congress of the ruling Workers’ Party in coming days.
The 600-mm multiple launch rocket system was front and centre as preparations ramped up for the once-in-five-years gathering, widely viewed as North Korea’s most important political event.
‘When this weapon is used actually, no force would be able to expect God’s protection,’ Kim said, according to the Korean Central News Agency.
‘It is really a wonderful and attractive weapon.’
Photos released by state media showed dozens of launch vehicles parked in neat rows on the plaza of Pyongyang’s House of Culture, which will host the congress.
The weapon was ‘appropriate for a special attack, that is, for accomplishing a strategic mission’, Kim told a ceremony on Wednesday, using a common euphemism for nuclear weapons…”
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