State media in North Korea says that leader Kim Jong Un has overseen Pyongyang’s latest missile tests, stressing the necessity of the country’s military preparedness.

Multiple short-range ballistic missiles were fired by North Korea from an area around its eastern port city of Wonsan, South Korean military officials said.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised tests of short-range ballistic missile systems that simulated nuclear counterstrikes against U.S. and South Korean forces, state media said Friday, as the No