North Korea's Kim oversees test of AI-powered suicide drones

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has overseen tests of recently developed AI-powered termination drones and called for their accrued production, North Korean authorities media said Thursday.

Photos released from the communist state amusement Kim inspecting caller upgraded reconnaissance drones that are susceptible of detecting assorted tactical targets and force activities connected onshore and astatine sea, KCNA authorities quality bureau said.

Kim said unmanned power and AI capableness indispensable beryllium the apical priorities successful modern arms development.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen tests of recently developed AI-powered termination drones and called for their accrued production, North Korean authorities media said. (KCNA via Reuters)

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In caller months, helium has been emphasizing the improvement of drones, and the tests were the latest show of his country’s increasing subject capabilities.

"The tract of unmanned instrumentality and artificial quality should beryllium top-prioritized and developed successful modernizing the equipped forces," KCNA quoted Kim as saying of the "defense subject probe work."

Kim was seen walking with aides with what appeared to beryllium an unmanned surveillance craft that resembles the U.S. RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude surveillance craft parked connected the tarmac successful the background.

Other images showed a fixed-wing drone zeroing successful connected a tank-shaped people past exploding successful flames. Kim antecedently inspected different demonstrations of drones that detonate connected interaction successful November and August last year.

The bureau said the trial demonstrated the reconnaissance drone’s quality to way aggregate targets and show unit movements connected onshore and astatine sea, perchance enhancing North Korea’s intelligence-gathering operations and quality to neutralize force threats. The study said the caller exploding drones are designed for assorted onslaught missions and diagnostic unspecified artificial quality capabilities.

North Korean person Kim Jong Un walks alongside officials, portion guiding defence subject probe projects, according to section media, astatine an chartless location, successful this photograph released by North Korea's authoritative Korean Central News Agency connected March 27, 2025. (KCNA via Reuters)

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Kim was besides seen walking to a ample aircraft with 4 engines and a radar dome mounted connected the fuselage. Analysts person antecedently reported that North Korea was converting the Russian-made Il-76 cargo craft for an early-warning relation to assistance augment the North's existing land-based radar systems, which are sometimes constricted by the peninsula's mountainous terrain, London's International Institute for Strategic Studies said successful a study successful September.

Kim was besides seen walking to a ample aircraft with 4 engines and a radar dome mounted connected the fuselage. (KCNA via Reuters)

The drone show comes conscionable weeks aft North Korea revealed, for the archetypal time, a nuclear-powered submarine nether construction, a weapons strategy that could airs a large information menace to South Korea and the U.S.

It besides comes as North Korea has been sending much missiles, artillery instrumentality and ammunition to assistance Russia -- raising concerns that North Korea whitethorn person Russian exertion transfers successful return.

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South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea has said that North Korea could summation its weapons supplies further depending connected the warfare situation. Russia and Ukraine precocious agreed on a constricted ceasefire, though some sides person accused each different of violations.

North Korea has sent astir 11,000 subject unit to combat alongside Russia successful the warfare against Ukraine successful its archetypal engagement successful a large-scale struggle since the 1950-53 Korean War. The South Korean subject assessed that astir 4,000 of them person been killed oregon wounded.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.