North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen a series of missile tests that simulated the destruction of an enemy airport, calling on the military to step up training to simulate “real war,” Al Jazeera reports.
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The NK News website, which specializes in analyzing North Korean current affairs, said photos published in the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper on Friday showed that the test involved six short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) launchers, each capable of carrying four missiles. The launchers were lined up along the coastal forest area.
The South Korean military announced that on Thursday evening around At 6:20 p.m. local time, they detected “the launch of several SRBM projectiles from the same region” on North Korea’s west coast.
North Korea’s state news agency KCNA said the unit, trained for “strike missions,” fired a “powerful salvo at targets” and demonstrated its ability to “face an actual war”https://www.delfi.lv/news/arzemes/.[Kims] emphasized that the fire attack units must be prepared (..) firstly to deter war and secondly to take the initiative in war by continuously reinforcing various simulated exercises for real war,” KCNA said.
North Korea’s latest missile tests come just days before the United States and South Korea begin the large-scale Freedom Shield joint military exercise that last took place in 2018. Pyongyang always strongly condemns the US-South Korea joint exercises and describes them as preparations by both countries for an invasion of North Korea.
