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North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un supervised the firing of new air defence missiles to test
their combat capability, state media KCNA reported on Sunday.
The report came ahead of the summit on Monday between U.S.
President Donald Trump and South Korea President Lee Jae Myung.
Earlier this month, Kim
condemned
the U.S.-South Korea joint military drills as their intent
to remain “most hostile and confrontational” to his country,
pledging to speed up nuclear build-up.
The new anti-air weapon systems showed “fast response” to
aerial targets such as attack drones and cruise missiles, KCNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Korean leader Kim JongUn supervised the firing of new air defence missiles to testtheir combat capability, state media KCNA reported on Sunday.The report came ahead of the summit on Monday between U.S.President Donald Trump and South Korea President Lee Jae Myung.Earlier this month, Kimcondemnedthe U.S.-South Korea joint military drills as their intentto remain “most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nKorea leader Kim oversees firing new air defence missiles - Metro Plus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/08\/24\/korea-leader-kim-oversees-firing-new-air-defence-missiles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Korea leader Kim oversees firing new air defence missiles - 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