Kim Jong-un Review North Korea's Missile Production Center

Kim Jong-un reviewed North Korea's missile production facility. (Source: KCNA)

JAKARTA - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un conducted a new missile production center and a missile manufacturing automation process, state media reported Monday.

Sunday's visit to the missile production center was carried out prior to its planned trip to Beijing to attend a military parade with Chinese President Xi Jinping and attended by a number of state leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Leader Kim said the modernized production process would help improve combat readiness of main missile units, KCNA reported as quoted by Reuters on September 1.

Pyongyang is under heavy international sanctions over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program developed in violation of UN Security Council resolutions.

While experts and international officials say the sanctions have lost much of its influence amid increasing economic, military and political support from Russia and China.

North Korea has sent troops, artillery ammunition, and missiles to Russia to support Moscow in its war against Ukraine.

Separately, North Korea's Foreign Ministry has also criticized the cooperation between America and Japan and South Korea, highlighting recent trilateral joint statements warning of cybersecurity threats from Pyongyang.

The ministry "disappointed and rejected" the United States, Japan, and South Korea for using cyberspace as "a geopolitical confrontation theater and hostile propaganda," a spokesman said in a statement broadcast by KCNA.

"The more the US insists on the childronistic and evil acts of hostility against the DPRK through intensive collaboration with its satellite countries, the greater distrust and hostility that will accumulate between the DPRK and the US," the spokesman added, using North Korea's official initials.