At the end of this month, a multinational maritime interdiction drill will be held on the high seas of Jeju to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction, involving ships from Korea, the United States, Japan, and Australia.
In addition, North Korea’s opposition is expected as a large-scale firepower drill in which the ROK-US combined forces will mobilize the latest weapons to punish enemy provocations is also scheduled.
Reporter Lim Seong-jae reports.
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On the 31st, a multinational maritime interdiction drill will be held on the high seas of Jeju on the occasion of a high-level meeting of the Proliferation Prevention Initiative (PSI).
7 surface warships, 6 aircraft, and 6 special teams from 4 countries, including Korea, the US, Japan and Australia, will be put into this drill, which is supervised by the South Korean military.
It is to conduct training to intercept ships suspected of loading weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and then board and search them.
It is the official position that it does not target a specific country, but the incident in 2002 when the Seosan ferry, which was carrying 15 Scud missiles leaving Nampo Port in North Korea and heading to Yemen, was caught, was the beginning of the PSI maritime interdiction exercise.
In addition, combined and joint firepower destruction drills will be held until the 15th of next month, in which the ROK-US combined forces and the Army, Navy and Air Force are fully mobilized.
It is a training to show off the ability to retaliate and destroy the enemy in case of provocation by mobilizing the latest weapons. is known to be mobilized.
North Korea has already shown a nervous reaction to the firepower destruction training, asking what the hell is a ‘firepower training’ and what a ‘destruction training’ against a nuclear-weapon state is like a day goblin.
[조한범 / 통일연구원 선임연구위원 : 해왔던 대로 한미 화력격멸훈련엔 대응 가능성이 높습니다. 다만 한미도 강 대 강 대응을 예고하고 있어서 워싱턴 선언 ‘NCG’나 전략잠수함 한반도 전개는 북한의 예상보다 높은 수위라고 볼 수 있고요. 북한도 수위를 조절해야 하는 상황입니다.]
Following the Korea-US and Korea-Japan summits, the atmosphere of Korea-US-Japan ‘tripartite cooperation’ has become more solid during the Hiroshima G7 meeting.
There are observations that North Korea, which has been watching the bold diplomatic schedule, may resume provocations in the name of successive drills.
This is Im Seong-jae from YTN.
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Graphics: Kwon Bo-hee
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2023-05-24 08:31:00
