SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over an event marking the movement of new nuclear-capable ballistic missile launchers to frontline units, state media reported Monday, in the latest round of escalating tensions along the inter-Korean border.

Kim led a ‘ceremony for transferring 250 new-type tactical ballistic missile launchers’ in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on Sunday, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.

Before the ceremony, Kim reviewed the launchers, which KCNA said were commissioned as a ‘new pivotal attack weapon of the DPRK armed forces’ and would be transferred to the ‘frontier military units.’

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the official name of North Korea.

Details were not provided about the new launchers, but North Korea has held recent weapons tests of nuclear-capable short-range ballistic missiles…”