North Korea conducted an artillery drill
| North Korean state media announced that Pyongyang conducted a drill under the supervision of the country's leader, which seems to be in response to the joint exercise between South Korea and the United States. |
The North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced that this exercise was conducted on Thursday with the aim of increasing the military readiness and actual combat ability of the artillery soldiers.
Quoting Yonhap news agency, North Korea’s official news agency said: This exercise started with the firing of long-range artillery near the border, which put the enemy’s capital in the range of its attack.
According to South Korean media, it seems that the phrase “enemy’s capital” refers to Seoul.
The surveillance of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un came as Seoul and Washington began their annual Freedom Shield exercise on Monday to strengthen deterrence against North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats.
Kim Jong-un has said: We must work more intensively for permanent military readiness so that all artillery units can take the initiative with brutal and quick attacks at the moment of entering a real war.
In this report, the leader of North Korea has set important missions for “completion of artillery war preparations” without referring to details.
Kim Jong Un supervised the Korean People’s Army military exercise on Thursday for the second day in a row.
On Wednesday, while visiting a military training base in the west of North Korea, he called for the intensification of “real and practical war exercises”.
Meanwhile, South Korea’s military announced that on Thursday, it detected a North Korean artillery exercise with live weapons towards the Yellow Sea in an area around the western port city of Nampo, and dozens of rocket launchers and self-propelled artillery were stationed there.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff warned that if North Korea does a provocative act, Seoul will react “decisively”.
Pyongyang has long denounced joint military exercises between Seoul and Washington as training for an attack. But these two countries have stated that their military exercise is defensive in nature.
North Korea’s defense ministry warned on Monday that South Korea and the United States will pay a “heavy price” for their military exercises.
Source: IRNA
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