N. Korea test-fires underwater ballistic missile: KCNA

North Korea carried out an underwater test-fire of a submarine ballistic missile, watched by its leader Kim Jong-un, the state media said Saturday. (Yonhap)

SEOUL, May 9 (Yonhap) — North Korea carried out an underwater test-fire of a submarine ballistic missile, watched by its leader Kim Jong-un, the state media said Saturday, in an apparent move to boost its underwater missile capabilities that could pose a fresh threat in the region.

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the mouthpiece of the communist state, reported that Kim issued an order for the test-fire and watched the ballistic missile from the submarine “soar into the sky from underwater.”

The article did not specify the exact location of the test-fire, and only mentioned that the site was remote from land.

But it is assumed to have taken place near Sinpo South Shipyard, northeast of Pyongyang, as the media said in a separate report that Kim paid a visit there on the same day to instruct a fishery complex.

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