The North Korean dictator kim jong un ordered his armed forces to intensify the “real war” maneuvers, the regime’s propaganda media indicated this Friday, after the leader of North Korea will supervise the firing a burst of missiles together with his daughter.
The photos showed Kim and her daughter in black jackets, along with army officers which contemplated the launch of several artillery units.
On Thursday, the South Korean General Staff initially reported that Pyongyang had fired a single short-range missile into the Yellow Sea from the vicinity of the port town of nampo (western coast).
Shortly thereafter it was announced that the South Korean military was “extensively analyzing the possibility that North Korea has launched several short-range ballistic missiles simultaneously from the same area.”
The images released this Friday by the state agency KCNA showed at least six missiles thrown at the same time by a unit hwasongconceived for “strike missions”.
During this inspection, Kim told the soldiers that they should prepare for “two strategic missions, which are first deter war and second take the initiative in war“, according to KCNA.
These units should “continually intensify various simulated warfare maneuvers.”he added.
This trial took place before South Korea and the United States Deploy your elders this coming Monday joint exercises in five years.
Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in decades, with the North intensifying its prohibited weapons tests and the South multiplying its military maneuvers with the United States.
The last time the allies carried out maneuvers of this magnitude last November, North Korea fired back more than 30 missiles of different types -one of them intercontinental in scope- in just three days.
The peninsula is experiencing a historic level of tension after 2022 in which Pyongyang, which has rejected offers to return to dialogue, carried out a record number of weapons tests and in which the allies again carried out great maneuvers and deployed US strategic assets in the region.
Thursday’s launch also marked another high-profile appearance by Kim’s daughter, who South Korean intelligence said would be called ju ae and would be his second descendant.
Some experts consider that the girl around 11 years is the de facto heir to Kim. The North Korean media identifies her only as her daughter and does not give any further details, not even her name.
North Korea he warned United States and its allies that it would consider as “a clear declaration of war” the interception of the test missiles that it launches recurrently over the Pacific Ocean.
Pyongyang alleges that its nuclear and weapons programs are self-defense and attacks the military exercises in Washington and Seoul, which it understands as preparations for an eventual invasion.
“It would be seen as a clear declaration of war against the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) in the event of a military response such as the interception of our strategic weapons tests.”, he said in a statement Kim Yo Jongthe powerful sister of leader Kim Jong-un.
(With information from AFP and EFE)
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