Photos released by nuclear-armed North Korea on Wednesday appear to reveal the designs for two new missiles — a provocative move that comes just after the United States' top diplomat said he was pleased with the recent "restraint" exercised by Pyongyang.
The pictures were released as part of dispatches by the official Rodong Sinmun daily and Korean Central News Agency detailing a visit by supreme leader Kim Jong Un to a plant that makes solid-fuel engines and nose cones for the isolated country's ballistic-missile program.
In the report, KCNA said Kim had visited the site and ordered the plant to "produce more solid-fuel rocket engines and rocket warhead tips."
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