While North Korea continues to send military troops to typhoon-affected areas, the military unit in charge of various kinds of ballistic missiles, Korean People’s Army Strategic Force, was recently given additional manpower and even saw the deployment of new cutting-edge equipment, Daily NK has learned.

Although North Korea claims that the military is responding to national crises both at home and abroad, it appears that the country’s real focus remains on developing new strategic weapons — such as intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).

According to a military source that Daily NK spoke with on Wednesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently promoted four units to the rank of regiment, including the Hanchon Rocket Management Unit (located in Jungsang County, South Pyongan Province), which is under the Strategic Force Command. The units have received additional manpower, materials and equipment, the source said…

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