Suicide Drones in North Korea? The Country Is Working on Mass Producing Them

North Korean state media announced Friday that the country is working on mass-producing “suicide drones.” Veuer’s Matt Hoffman reports.

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00:00North Korea is investing in suicide drones.

00:03That's according to the country's state-run TV station KRT,

00:06which on Friday released photographs of Kim Jong-un examining such drones,

00:10as well as of the drones in action.

00:12According to Reuters, state news agency KCNA said that

00:16Kim underscored the need to build a serial production system as early as possible

00:20and go into full-scale mass production.

00:23North Korea has previously flown drones over South Korea.

00:26And according to the AP, it's also accused South Korea of using drones

00:30to drop propaganda leaflets over the North.

00:32U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed concern that North Korea

00:36has been receiving military support from Russia.

00:39This is Blinken speaking on Wednesday.

00:41There's deep concern about what Russia is or may be doing to strengthen North Korea's

00:46capacities, its missile capacity, its nuclear capacity, as well as the experience that

00:53the North Korean forces are getting in their efforts to support Russia against Ukraine.