The North Korean leader oversaw a live-fire exercise, simulating an attack on a South Korean airfield, and urged troops to stand ready in the face of “frantic war-preparation movements,” he said. was reported Friday.
Kim Jong-un’s exercise and comments, reported by North Korean media, come after a series of joint US and South Korean military exercises and a day after the South Korean military discovered that North Korea had sent at least one short-range ballistic missile to the sea fired. from a location near the western coastal town of Nampo.
The United States recently sent B-1B and B-52 long-range bombers to several joint air exercises with South Korean warplanes, with both countries preparing this month for the largest exercise in recent years in response to the threat of Pyongyang’s expanding nuclear arsenal .
North Korea sees these military exercises as rehearsals for an invasion.
Pyongyang’s official Korean central news agency, KCNA, said Kim urged troops to be prepared to “respond and overwhelmingly contain hostile military action.”
South Korea’s Unification Ministry urged North Korea to stop “nuclear programs and (…) and military provocations”.
Source: DN
