{"id":54421,"date":"2024-05-11T20:48:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=54421"},"modified":"2024-05-11T20:48:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:18:57","slug":"pyongyang-to-deploy-new-multiple-rocket-launcher-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/54421\/pyongyang-to-deploy-new-multiple-rocket-launcher-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyongyang to deploy new multiple rocket launcher this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Leader Kim Jong Un on Friday oversaw a live-fire test of the &#8220;technically updated&#8221; rocket system, Pyongyang&#8217;s official Korean Central News Agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang in February said it had developed a new control system for its 240mm multiple rocket launcher that would lead to a &#8220;qualitative change&#8221; in its defense capabilities, and last month\u00a0executed a test-firing of new shells.<\/p>\n<p>The updated rocket launcher will be &#8220;deployed to units of the Korean People&#8217;s Army as replacement equipment from 2024 to 2026&#8221;, KCNA said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s defense ministry told AFP it could not confirm the Friday test launches.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0Pyongyang said eight shells had &#8220;hit point target to intensively prove the advantage and destructive power of the updated 240mm multiple rocket launcher system&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Images released by state media showed leader Kim conversing with military officials during an inspection of the launcher, as well as what appeared to be the live-fire test of the system.<\/p>\n<p>The tests also proved the power of the &#8220;controllable shells for (the) multiple rocket launcher&#8221;, it added.<\/p>\n<p>KCNA said Saturday that Kim discussed ways to raise production of the new rocket launcher system and shells to &#8220;the highest level&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It also said a &#8220;significant change will be soon made in increasing the artillery combat ability of our army&#8221;, without providing details.<\/p>\n<p>SD\/PR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader Kim Jong Un on Friday oversaw a live-fire test of the &#8220;technically updated&#8221; rocket system, Pyongyang&#8217;s official Korean Central News Agency said. Pyongyang in February said it had developed a new control system for its 240mm multiple rocket launcher that would lead to a &#8220;qualitative change&#8221; in its defense capabilities, and last month\u00a0executed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7103,7100,7110,7105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-international-en","category-politic-en","category-technology-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}