According to the state-run [North] Korean Central News Agency, the tests were conducted over three days earlier this week to "verify the combat reliability of the mobile short-range anti-aircraft missile system."
It added that the surface-to-surface tactical ballistic missile "tipped with a cluster bomb warhead, can reduce to ashes any target" within an area of 6.5 to 7 hectares with high-density strikes. The missile appears to be a KN-23-series, North Korea's main short-range ballistic missile, similar to Russia's Iskander-type missiles.
"There was a firing for testing the maximum workload of engine using low-cost materials," KCNA said.
Earlier, the Joint Chiefs of Staff here said it detected an unidentified projectile fired from an area near Pyongyang toward the East Sea on Tuesday, followed by several short-range ballistic missiles fired from Wonsan, Kangwon Province the next morning, and then one more ballistic missile into the East Sea about six hours later.
The projectile fired earlier in the week disappeared shortly after launch, leading the JCS to determine that it failed.
KCNA also revealed a test of an "electromagnetic weapon and carbon fiber bomb," describing them as special strategic assets to be combined with "various military means," which may have been conducted on Monday, since the JCS detected the tests on Tuesday and Wednesday only.
With no mention of the country's leader Kim Jong-un, he apparently did not observe these tests.
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