Kim Jong Un Offers a Rare Sneak Peek at North Korea’s Weapons Program

SEOUL—North Korea has extensive saved its adversaries on their toes with taunting rhetoric and shock weapons checks.

As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to get office, chief Kim Jong Un provided a sneak peek of Pyongyang’s pipeline of navy components with strange detail through a uncommon Workers’ Party Congress meeting that finished this week.

The North is building navy drones, a nuclear-powered submarine and surveillance satellites, Mr. Kim reported. Missiles will get scaled-down and lighter. Other folks will fly farther.

A hypersonic warhead, which usually can vacation a mile per second, is completely ready for screening and creation, he reported. The advice technologies for a multi-warhead rocket, presumed to be for an intercontinental ballistic missile, is at its closing stage.

At a Thursday night navy parade celebrating the Workers’ Party meeting, the North put a host of navy components on exhibit, which include a submarine-launched ballistic missile that condition media touted as the “world’s most effective weapon.”