Kim Jong-un approves modernization plans for munitions plants for party congress

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ratified plans to modernize the country's major munitions factories, which will be submitted at the forthcoming key Party Congress — a step deemed essential to bolstering its "war deterrence," state media reported Friday. The announcement came during recent visits by Kim to unspecified “major munitions industry enterprises,” where he was briefed on fourth-quarter missile and artillery shell production, the Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the Workers' Party, reporte