North Korea test-fires long-range cruise missiles — state media

North Korea has test-fired two strategic long-range cruise missiles into the sea, state media reports.

The reclusive state’s leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the drill, staged Sunday over the Yellow Sea, and urged “unlimited and sustained” development of his country’s nuclear weapons forces, the KCNA news agency reports.

It was apparently the first such test since early November.

The South Korean military detected the launch of multiple missiles from the Sunan area near Pyongyang, the Yonhap news agency says.

The goal of the exercise was to review the “counter-offensive response posture and combat capability of long-range missile sub-units,” KCNA says.

Kim stated that the government and ruling party of North Korea “would as ever devote all their efforts to the unlimited and sustained development of the state nuclear combat force,” the news agency adds.

North Korea staged a ballistic missile test on November 6, just over a week after US President Donald Trump — on a tour of the region — expressed interest in meeting with Kim. Pyongyang did not respond to the offer.