News bulletin on recent missile tests

North Korea's military said Monday its recent barrage of missile tests were practices to attack its rivals' air bases and warplanes and paralyze their operation command systems, showing the North's resolve to counter provocative US-South Korean military drills.

North Korea fired dozens of missiles and flew warplanes last week, triggering evacuation alerts in some South Korean and Japanese areas, in response to massive US-South Korean air force drills. U.S and South Korean officials strongly condemned the North's missile launches, saying their drills were defensive in nature.

The North's military said it carried out an important test of a ballistic missile with a special functional warhead missioned with "paralyzing the operation command system of the enemy." It said it also launched super-large multiple launch missiles and tactical ballistic missiles.