North Korea fired on Monday two short-range ballistic missilesin response to air exercises conducted by the United States and South Korea on Sunday. The North Korean military used its latest launcher, which can carry out a “tactical nuclear strike” capable of completely wiping out enemy air bases, they said officially .
The Korean People’s Army’s long-range artillery unit on the Western Front has fired a 600mm multiple rocket launcher towards eastern waters, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
This type of system has been referred to as “the latest type of multi-throw precision strike weapons” and “a means of tactical nuclear attack“Assigned to destroy enemy operational airfield, according to report.
The KCNA also said the United States and South Korea have already conducted combined air exercises several times this year, adding fuel to latent tensions on the Korean peninsula.
The KPA missile launch occurred on the same day that a senior North Korean official issued a severe second warning in two days.
After forcefully denying South Korea’s suspicions about the readiness of North Korea’s missile forces, demonstrated by Saturday’s launch of an ICBM, Kim Yo Jong, deputy department head of the Central Committee of the Democratic People’s Party of Workers (DPRK), issued a press release emphasizing that the country “possesses satisfactory technology and capabilities,” according to other information Monday from the KCNA.
North Korea fired a Hwasong-15 ICBM from Pyongyang International Airport on Saturday at a predetermined area in the eastern open waters on Saturday, a day before Kim Yo Jong made his first statement in nearly a month, accusing the United States and South Korea of ”openly displaying their dangerous greed and attempting to gain military advantage and dominance on the Korean peninsula”.
According to Japanese authorities, that shell landed in their exclusive economic zone, which prompted Washington and Seoul to conduct joint air exercises. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has called a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, scheduled for Tuesday, to discuss North Korea’s latest actions.
“A Serious Provocation”
The South Korean army has defined the launches “a serious provocation that undermines the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula and has called on Pyongyang to cease “immediately”.
Pyongyang, meanwhile, stressed that the Korean People’s Army (KPA) carried out the shooting on Monday in response to the joint US-South Korea exercisesand blamed those countries for the deteriorating security situation on the Korean peninsula, according to state news agency KCNA.
“With today’s (Monday) fire exercise, involving multiple rocket launchers and super-large, tactical nuclear strike means, the KPA demonstrated its full ability to deter and respond” at the joint air exercises, it added. KCN extension.
Meanwhile, leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister has warned that her country closely monitors the actions of Washington and Seoul and threatened with a “corresponding answer” to joint air maneuvers.
“The frequency of using the Pacific as our firing range depends on the actions of US forces,” Kim Yo Jong warned in a statement released by state news agency KCNA.
South Korea and the United States are preparing to hold an exercise next week in Washington to learn what to do if Pyongyang uses nuclear weapons.
This drew the ire of North Korea, which on Friday threatened an “unprecedented” response to what it called preparations for war.
With agency information.
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Source: Clarin
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