SEOUL, South Korea: North Korea said Thursday leader Kim Jong Un supervised the first test firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could potentially enhance its ability to strike targets in South Korea and US military bases there.

The report by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on Thursday differed from the assessment by South Korea's military, which had concluded Wednesday's launches were of two short-range ballistic missiles.

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