North Korea said it carried out the inaugural test of a new type of short-range missile, the first-ever DPRK system that state media has ascribed a tactical nuclear weapons delivery role. Tactical nuclear weapons had been identified as a major objective for military modernization by Kim Jong Un at the Eighth Party Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea in Jan. 2021.

“The new-type tactical guided weapon system developed under the special concern of the Party Central Committee is of great significance in radically increasing the fire striking power of the long-range artillery units on the front and