North Korea has promoted scientists who researched and developed the regime's purported new weapons system.
According to Pyeongyang's Korean Central News Agency, the North's leader Kim Jong-un made an order to elevate the ranks of 103 researchers who contributed to strengthening the regime's self-defense capability.
The agency says North Korea has completed a powerful new weapon system.
The North has recently showed the world its latest weapons development, test-firing five projectiles between late July and early August.