Pyongyang [North Korea], August 21 (ANI): In an obvious response to the joint navy drills between South Korea and the US, North Korean chief Kim Jong Un visited a navy unit and inspected a cruise missile take a look at aboard a warship, Yonhap news company reported citing Pyongyang’s state media KCNA on Monday.
Kim inspected the Guards 2nd Surface Ship Flotilla of the East Sea Fleet of the navy of the Korean People’s Army (KPA), KCNA mentioned, with out disclosing the time of his go to.
He additionally watched the seamen on the patrol ship stage a drill, by which it test-launched “strategic” cruise missiles, verifying the ship’s “regular posture for mobilization and offensive ability.””At the drill aimed to reconfirm the combat function of the ship and the feature of its missile system and make the seamen skilled at carrying out the attack mission in actual war, the ship rapidly hit the target without even an error,” Yonhap news company cited the KCNA report.
South Korea and the US kicked off the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) train on Monday, that includes varied contingency drills, similar to the pc simulation-based command submit train, concurrent discipline coaching and Ulchi civil defence drills. The train will run till August 31.
Notably, this improvement comes after the leaders of South Korea, Japan and the US- throughout their trilateral summit on the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland final week – had reaffirmed their dedication in direction of “complete denuclearization” by North Korea in accordance with related UNSC resolutions and had urged Pyongyang to desert its nuclear and ballistic missileprograms.
“Furthermore, we reaffirm our commitment to the complete denuclearization of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in accordance with relevant UNSC resolutions and urge the DPRK to abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. We call on all UN Member States to fully implement all relevant UNSC resolutions. We strongly condemn the DPRK’s unprecedented number of ballistic missile launches, including multiple intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launches and conventional military actions that pose a grave threat to peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and beyond,” the joint assertion learn.
Meanwhile, Kim has vowed to strengthen the North’s navy to make it an “all-round and powerful” service group with improved fight effectivity and fashionable technique of floor and underwater offensive and defensive capabilities, KCNA reported.
“North Korea will put spurs to the modernization of naval weapons and equipment including the building of powerful warships and the development of shipboard and underwater weapon systems,” he mentioned.
The inspection got here amid expectations that North Korea may perform main provocations, such because the launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), in a bid to protest the allies’ joint navy drills. The North has lengthy denounced the Seoul-Washington navy workout routines as a rehearsal for an invasion, Yonhap news company reported.
Kim has additionally referred to as for a “drastic boost” of the nation’s missile manufacturing capability and conflict contingency preparations in an “offensive” method throughout his newest go to to main munitions factories. (ANI)