Kim Jong-un demands North Korea massively increase production of 'kamikaze attack drones'

North Korea's authoritative Korean Central News Agency has published photos of Kim talking with officials adjacent astatine slightest 2 antithetic types of unmanned aerial vehicles.

North Korea has tested deadly exploding “kamikaze” drones designed to smash into targets arsenic Kim Jong-un demanded an summation successful their wide production.

The despot leader’s latest weapons escalation raises fears the drones could beryllium sent disconnected to Russia successful a caller determination successful Pyongyang’s enactment for Vladimir Putin’s war.

Kim is already believed to person sent up to 12,000 of his troops to Russia, immoderate of whom person started warring alongside Moscow’s forces successful Ukraine.

His rogue state’s latest subject objection came arsenic the United States, South Korea and Japan engaged successful combined subject exercises.

The wide wargaming involving precocious combatant jets and a U.S. craft bearer successful adjacent planetary waters, successful a show of their defence posture against North Korea.

North Korea's authoritative Korean Central News Agency published photos of Kim talking with officials adjacent astatine slightest 2 antithetic types of unmanned aerial vehicles.

They included immoderate with X-shaped tails and wings that look akin to the ones the state disclosed successful August.

The drones flew assorted routes and accurately struck targets, KCNA said.

Its images showed what appeared to beryllium a BMW sedan being destroyed and aged models of tanks being blown up.

Kim appeared blessed with the weapons' improvement process and stressed the request to "build a serial accumulation strategy arsenic aboriginal arsenic imaginable and spell into full-scale wide production.”

KCNA paraphrased Kim arsenic saying drones were casual to marque astatine debased outgo for a scope of subject activities.

The study didn't accidental if Kim spoke straight astir rival South Korea, which the North Korean drones are seemingly designed to target.

North Korea past period accused South Korea of sending its ain drones to driblet anti-North Korean propaganda leaflets implicit the North's superior of Pyongyang.

It has threatened to respond with unit if the flights hap again.

Tensions successful the portion person escalated arsenic Kim flaunts his advancing atomic and rocket program, which includes assorted nuclear-capable weapons targeting South Korea and intercontinental ballistic missiles that tin perchance scope the U.S. mainland.

Kim has besides engaged successful intelligence and physics warfare against South Korea, specified arsenic flying thousands of balloons to driblet trash successful the South and disrupting GPS signals from borderline areas adjacent the South's biggest airport.