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North Korea announced that it is revising the operational plans of its front-line units.

It seems that they are making an operational plan using nuclear weapons as they continue to threaten tactical nuclear weapons recently. 



Ahn Jung-shik is a reporter specializing in North Korea.



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second day of the extended meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea being held in Pyongyang.



Ri Tae-seop, chief of the General Staff, who oversees operations of the North Korean military, hangs a map in front of General Secretary Kim Jong-un and gives a briefing.



Although the map has been mosaicked, you can tell that it is the East Coast of South Korea.



North Korea said it had discussed the issue of assigning new operational missions to the forward forces and revising the operational plan.



[Chosun Central TV: We discussed issues related to the project to further confirm the operational missions of front-line units (front units) and to revise the operational plan and to reorganize the important military organization.]



Although it did not reveal what the amended operational plan was, the tactics It seems highly likely that it was related to nuclear operations.



When North Korea test-fired a new tactical guided weapon in April, North Korea announced that it would strengthen the use of tactical nuclear weapons for artillery units deployed along the demarcation line.



[Chosun Central TV (last April): In order to dramatically improve the firepower strike power of long-range artillery units on the front line, and to strengthen the effectiveness of tactical nuclear operation and the diversification of firepower missions...

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The plan is to equip missiles capable of hitting South Korea with tactical nuclear weapons, but this revision of the operational plan is presumed to have materialized it.



A Ministry of Unification official revealed that the operational plan is usually undisclosed, but the revision was made, and said that the intentional disclosure of South Korea's east coast area is likely to increase the military threat to South Korea.



The ROK and US military authorities are also currently revising their operational plans in preparation for the North Korean nuclear threat.



Both South and North Korea have begun preparing an operational plan that assumes a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.



(Video editing: Jinwon Kim)