N. Korea's Kim oversees artillery firing contest on state founder's birthday

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen an artillery firing contest on the birth anniversary of state founder Kim Il-sung, grandfather of the current leader Kim, the North's state media reported Thursday. "Comrade Kim Jong-un ... oversaw an artillery firing contest of artillery subunits under the large combined units of the Korean People's Army in the western area organized on April 15, the Day of the Sun," the Korean Central News Agency said. Participating subunits demonstrated "militant m

By The Korea Herald