North Korea’s Kim Guides Artillery Firing Drill in Range of Seoul

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guided an artillery firing drill by the Korean People’s Army, the country’s military force, state media KCNA reported on Friday.

The drill, carried out on Thursday, involved units near the border that are in firing range of “the enemy’s capital,” KCNA said, referring to Seoul, the South Korean capital of nearly 10 million residents, and added it “fulfilled important military missions for war deterrence.”

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said North Korea’s military test-fired…