Per US official, missiles launched by DPRK Wednesday assessed to be KN-23s - short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) - despite North Korea claims it tested a "large-caliber multiple launch guided rocket system"
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KCNA: "After learning about the result of the test-fire, he said that it is very great and it would be an inescapable distress to the forces becoming a fat target of the weapon."
KCNA: "The officials, scientists and technicians were filled with great pride and excitement for having developed and making the first test-fire of the new-type guided ordnance rocket, which will play a main role in ground military operations, in a short span of time."
KCNA: "Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the [DPRK] and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, guided a test-fire of newly-developed large-caliber multiple launch guided rocket system."
KCNA: "The Supreme Leader visitedin July Juche 101 (2012), regardless of sultry weather. He went round the resting hall, face treatment room, public bath, barber's room and other places of the Ryugyong Health Complex to correct shortcomings."
KCNA: "With the beginning of the hottest period of summer, a lot of Pyongyang citizens have visited the Ryugyong Health Complex and the People's Open-air Ice Rink to spend a good timebuilt on the bank of the Taedong River under the warm care of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un."
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