North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw a joint offensive drill featuring new main battle tanks equipped with an “active protection system,” saying ground troops will be equipped with the “superior” tank “extensively,” state media reported Friday. Kim oversaw “a coordinated offensive tactical drill of infantrymen’s and tankmen’s sub-units” a day earlier at the Pyongyang Training Base No. 60 under the Capital City Defence Corps of the Korean People’s Army, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. The drill also involved “various tests” to assess the new main battle tank’s active protection system, during which it intercepted 100 percent of anti-tank missiles and drones attacking from different positions and directions to “prove the efficiency of its superior active protection system,” the KCNA said. Kim touted the tank as “very superior” and “unequaled in the world in its striking power and mobility,” as well as in its self-defense capacity. “Our army will be equipped with such most powerful tanks,” Kim said. During the development of the tank, special attention was paid to improving it
