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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un oversees tests of new AI-equipped suicide drones

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks with officials near a new unmanned aircraft in this photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on March 27, 2025 [Handout/KCNA via Reuters]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has personally supervised his country’s testing of new AI-equipped suicide and reconnaissance drones and called for unmanned aircraft and artificial intelligence to be prioritised in military modernisation plans.

State-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Thursday that Kim oversaw the testing of “various kinds of reconnaissance and suicide drones” produced by North Korea’s Unmanned Aerial Technology Complex.

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