PYONGYANG -- Kim Jong-un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), visited a major munitions factory on Saturday to learn about its production of tactical guided weapons, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Sunday.

Kim praised the multi-purpose precision-guided weapons produced by the factory, according to the report.

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"The potential military and technological power of our tactical guided weapon system has military effective value great enough to replace even the multiple launch rocket system in the future," he was quoted by KCNA as saying.

The DPRK leader stressed the country's major units will be equipped with this weapon system in an organized way from the first half of this year, and "need to expand the current production capacity by about 2.5 times," said the report.