Kim Jong-un oversees 'new weapon' test

North Korea's state media announced on Friday that leader Kim Jong-un inspected the site for testing a "newly developed cutting-edge strategic weapon", South Korean Yonhap news service reports.

North Korea's Korean Central Television (KCTV) said without elaborating that the weapon which Kim oversaw the testing of was "researched and developed for a long time", and that the test was successful, according to Yonhap.