Kim Jong-Un simulated “nuclear counterattack” from North Korea and expressed his “satisfaction”

Hours after the overheating of operations in Pyongyang and the resulting repudiation of the United StatesNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has acknowledged this conducted atomic military exercises for two days, in which simulated “a nuclear counterattack”North Korean state news agency KCNA reported.

The work included launching a ballistic missile equipped with a “dummy nuclear warhead”detailed that medium in a publication released this Monday. The North Korean dictator showed his “satisfaction” for the set of exercises.

The maneuvers aimed to “allow the units to familiarize yourself with the procedures and processes for implementing their tactical nuclear strike missions”.

The new operations, Pyongyang’s fourth show of force, came after South Korea and the United States began their biggest military exercises in five years.

North Korea has considered that these movements – known as Shield of Libertystarted on March 13th and will run until the 23rd – they are proof of an invasion and he has warned he will take action “overwhelming” as an answer.

“The exercise was also intended to demonstrate our strong will to deliver a real war response and send an even more serious warning to the enemy, which is expanding its war exercises for aggression”, the official North Korean agency specified in this regard.

North Korea’s exercises, with a “nuclear warhead” missile test.

This weekend’s drills were divided into drills simulating a transition to a nuclear counterattack position and the “launch of a tactical ballistic missile with a mock nuclear warhead,” the KCNA said.

“The missile carried a test warhead which simulates a nuclear warhead“He added later, without giving any further details.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Sunday that the short-range ballistic missile was launched from the Tongchang-ri area in North Pyongyang province. After traveling 800 kilometers, it fell into the Sea of ​​Japanthey said from Seoul.

The missile launch came a day after the official North Korean press reported it more than 800,000 young people have volunteered the army to fight the “US imperialists”.

South Korean authorities have described it as a “serious provocation” which violates UN sanctionsindicated that it had been analyzed by American and South Korean intelligence and then filed a complaint through its embassy in Beijing, China.

Meanwhile, the US Indo-Pacific military command also condemned the launch and highlighted the “destabilizing shock” of the Korean War program.

North Korea’s exercises, from the UN meeting to the condemnation of the G7

It is expected that the United Nations Security Council hold an emergency meeting on the launch of the ballistic missile on Monday, at the request of the United States and Japan.

For its part, North Korea’s KCNA news agency reported Sunday that Pyongyang’s foreign ministry had “strongly” warned the United States and other countries that the discussion at the United Nations Security Council should include “legitimate self-defense countermeasures” for North Korea.

He G7 – including Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom – joined in the repudiation “in the strongest terms”, in a statement signed by their respective foreign ministers.

The memo stated that the process “represents a deterioration of international and regional peace and security“, and recalled that in the last year Pyongyang “has intensified its escalation actions with a record number of ballistic missile launches” and its “irresponsible and destabilizing rhetoric on the use of nuclear weapons”.

“North Korea it cannot and never will have the status of a nuclear weapons state according to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; We urge North Korea to engage in denuclearization diplomacy and accept repeated offers of dialogue made by Japan, the United States and the Republic of Korea,” referring to South Korea, the document adds, according to the Europa news agency. Press.

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