🇰🇵⚡️ — North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un inspected major munitions factories to review missile and artillery shell production.

➡️ Kim described production capacity as a strategic pillar of war deterrence, not a technical matter, and ordered expansion to meet the future needs of the Korean People’s Army.

➡️ The Supreme Leader has ratified documents to modernize North Korea’s weapons industry ahead of a major Workers’ Party congress in early 2026, which is expected to set the country’s next five-year development plan.

🇸🇦❌🇾🇪 — NEW: Saudi airstrikes struck UAE-backed Hadhrami Elite positions in Wadi Nahab, Hadhramaut Governorate, eastern Yemen, earlier this morning.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — Israeli warplanes are conducting airstrikes in the Hermel area of northern Lebanon.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — Scenes from Bouslaiya, southern Lebanon, following Israeli airstrikes in the area.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — More than 40 Russian Geran-2 drones attacked Odessa ports and Izmail, southwestern Ukraine, overnight.

➡️ Energy infrastructure, port infrastructure, and cargo ships were struck in the attack.