The head of North Korea, Kim Jong Unsolicited “exponentially” increase the arsenal of nuclear weapons short-range missiles in your country, including the development of powerful counter-attack missiles.
“In a situation where South Korea has undoubtedly become an obvious enemythe mass production of tactical nuclear weapons is important and necessary and therefore it is necessary to exponentially increase the number of nuclear warheads,” he said.
In the framework of the sixth plenary session of the eighth central committee of the Workers’ Party, he called for every effort to produce weapons that “overwhelm” the enemywhich implies that in 2023 the regime will maintain the same dynamics as this year.
“Our nuclear force’s first mission is to deter war and safeguard peace and stability. But if it fails to achieve deterrence, then it will perform its secondary mission, which will not be defensive work,” he clarified in his speech.
The North Korean leader also closed the meeting urged further development of ICBMs (ICBM) and to soon put into orbit a reconnaissance satellite that the regime has recently tested and intends to have ready in April.
Maximum tension in the peninsula
Kim’s words come after a year in which North Korea carried out a record number of weapons of mass destruction tests and in which tension on the Korean peninsula has reached new limits.
The increase in the number of missile tests, which were almost fifty in all of 2022, responds on the one hand to the weapons modernization plan approved in January 2021. On the other hand, this strategy has also been implemented to respond to South Korea and to the United States which, given the lack of willingness for dialogue, resumed major military maneuvers in the peninsula last year.
For its part, the South Korean military reported that North Korea launched three short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) on Saturday, while this Sunday it fired another of these projectiles.
According to the article by the North Korean state news agency, it is a new 600 mm rocket launcher that Kim himself has assured can be equipped with tactical nuclear warheads and which was presented during the aforementioned single-party plenary session.
With agency information.
Source: Clarin
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