SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw nuclear counterattack drills on Monday, sending a clear warning to Pyongyang’s enemies, the North’s official KCNA news agency reported.
South Korea’s military general staff said earlier in the day that North Korea had launched several short-range ballistic missiles off its eastern coast.
According to the KCNA, as part of the test of the North Korean nuclear management system, artillery forces took part on Monday in these maneuvers presented as unprecedented and showing the extent of Pyongyang’s nuclear capabilities.
For North Korea, it is also a protest against joint military exercises organized by South Korea and the United States, the official news agency said.
Kim Jong-un oversaw this “simulation” including the deployment of troops in a nuclear counterattack position, with shells equipped with dummy nuclear warheads fired, to prepare for the possibility of a nuclear crisis, he said. added the KCNA.
(Ju-min Park; French version Jean Terzian)
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