Anchor: North Korea is publicizing its latest missile launch on Monday, claiming that the testing of its precision guided ballistic missile was a success. After showing off that it's target radius is large enough to cover most of South Korea, North Korean media on Tuesday claimed that the missile's target accuracy is within seven meters. 
Kim Bum-soo has more. 
 
Report: North Korea says the ballistic missile it dropped in the East Sea earlier on Monday was a new precision-guided weapon.
 
The North’s Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) said Tuesday that the ballistic missile “correctly hit a planned target point with deviation of seven meters.”

The state-run media said that the weapon can strike enemy warships and ground targets. 
 
After attending a ground-to-air KN-06 missile test Saturday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was also present at the launch site to inspect the missile and launch vehicles. He was cited as expressing satisfaction with the highly-automated system for faster launches.
 
The KCNA said Kim gave the country’s national defense scientists a research assignment to develop a precision ballistic missile last year, and ordered the development of more powerful strategic weapons based on the success of the launch.
 
The North launched what appeared to be a variation of a short-range Scud missile Monday morning at a location near the eastern coastal city of Wonsan in Gangwon Province. 
 
The missile flew around 450 kilometers in about six minutes. If it was fired from a location south of Wonsan, it would have had most of South Korea within its target range. 
 
The launch came eight days after North Korea fired a Pukguksong-2 medium-range ballistic missile, which can hit targets in a two-thousand kilometer radius, including U.S. military bases in Japan, if fired at a normal angle.  
 
Just a week before that, North Korea fired a Hwasong-12 strategic missile that flew 780 kilometers at a high-degree launch angle, proving it has the capability to strike the U.S. military base in Guam. 
Kim Bum-soo, KBS World Radio News. 
 

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