North Korea announced on 25 August that it successfully test-fired what it described as a "newly developed, super-large multiple rocket launcher [MRL]" the previous day: the Northeast Asian country's seventh weapon test within a month and a further indication that it continues to modernise its tactical weapons. Pyongyang's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that the test-firing "proved that all the tactical and technological specifications of the system correctly reached the preset indexes".
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