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North Korea continued to criticize and warn against the South Korea-US joint exercise for the second day.

Today (11th) raised the threat level to make our government feel a huge security crisis.



Correspondent Kim A-young.



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Following Kim Yeo-

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yesterday, Kim Yeong-cheol, the head of the United Front, who is in charge of South Korea, gave a discourse today.



Using the South Korea-US drill as an excuse, Kim Young-chul threatened to let the South know the cost of hostilities, who had blown away the opportunity to improve inter-Korean relations.



In particular, he threatened to make the South feel every minute that it was approaching a huge security crisis.



Unlike Kim Yo-jong, who aimed at the ROK and the United States at the same time, he focused on the South and directly mentioned the security crisis, so it can be read as the purpose of an armed protest against South Korea.



The communication line between the two Koreas is out of service for the second day following yesterday afternoon.



Earlier in March, North Korea issued a critical statement during the combined exercise in the first half of March, and immediately after the exercise, fired an improved version of the Iskander, a short-range ballistic missile capable of carrying cruise missiles and tactical nuclear weapons.



The intelligence service is not ruling out high-intensity provocations such as the test launch of a submarine-launched ballistic missile SLBM, but this is bound to be a burden for North Korea as well.



[Hong-min / Research Fellow, Unification Research Institute: If you go to the level of shooting from a submarine, the threat level is already significantly higher. The atmosphere in the United States, Korea, and the United Nations will all change completely. China is also running out of things to say.]



Therefore, the possibility of an official declaration of the already foreshadowing of the abolition of the 9/19 military agreement or a provocation in the West Sea is being raised.



[Park Won-gon/Professor of North Korean Studies at Ewha Womans University: For example, it is judged that there is a way to shoot coastal artillery in the NLL area. (Increasing tensions on the Korean Peninsula) can attract the attention of the United States and increase negotiating power without targeting the United States directly. .]



Raising the level of criticism and threats to South Korea through discourse open to residents is also interpreted as an intention to promote internal solidarity.



In the midst of this, it is known that the Global Hawk, an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft of the US Air Force, which departed from the US base in Japan, flew over the West Sea and near the armistice line today and performed a reconnaissance mission.



The South Korean military maintained a firm readiness posture, he said, adding that there are currently no special trends in the North Korean military.



(Video coverage: Jeong Seong-hwa, video editing: Kim Jong-mi, Source: News 1)