Kim Jong Un handed out military promotions to dozens of cadres and scientists on Saturday honoring their contributions to the successful Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile test a week earlier. This included 14 promotions to the four-tier general ranks as well as 72 promotions for lower ranks, according to state media.

The North Korean leader switched to using orders as chair of the WPK Central Military Commission (CMC) for military promotions instead of orders of the KPA Supreme Commander in 2018. But only a few of them were publicized. This order of the CMC chair was the ninth carried by state