North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency reported that supreme leader Kim Jong Un attended an exhibition featuring intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) drones and a variety of one-way attack drones.
In a speech at the exhibition, leader Kim focused on the urgent need to seize "absolute superiority in drone technology" and revealed unspecified steps needed to "rapidly expand and strengthen unmanned aeronautical technology."
Kim Jong Un — alive and well — showed up at a weapons exhibition and demanded that North Korea become a leader in combat drone production
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) October 30, 2026
Later, the dictator was shown what kamikaze drones, cruise missiles and powerful multiple rocket launchers are capable of. pic.twitter.com/aFEATZ4FVF
Belgium-based defense news website Army Recognition stated:
North Korea has displayed a new flying-wing drone alongside large reconnaissance aircraft, armed unmanned platforms, loitering munitions and first-person-view attack systems, highlighting a broader effort to modernize its military drone fleet. The exhibition, attended by Kim Jong-un, was accompanied by missile launches and heavy rocket fire designed to demonstrate how unma
