Korea Kim Jong-un Says Latest Ballistic Missile Launches Were Simulation Nuclear Attacks
Asia North Korea launches a missile on Japan, which asks its citizens to take refuge "underground"
North Korean leader
Kim Jong-un
oversaw a "long-range strategic cruise missile" test carried out the day before, state media reported on Wednesday.
North Korea
fired two such missiles on Wednesday that flew for "10,234 seconds in an oval pattern" and "clearly hit their targets in the East Sea (as the
Sea of Japan
is called in the two Koreas ) 2,000 kilometers away .
away", according to the North KCNA agency.
The North Korean leader expressed his satisfaction with "the high reaction capabilities of his nuclear combat forces", which showed "his great preparation for real war", according to the Pyongyang state
media
.
The test "is a new clear and unequivocal warning signal to our enemies," Kim said.
The launches were intended to strengthen "the efficiency and combat power" of the missiles deployed by the North Korean Army for the use of tactical nuclear weapons and confirm the operability of the system, according to the regime's agency.
The South Korean military authorities have not given details as of the moment of the latest North Korean launch.
According to the local Yonhap agency, the South Korean
Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)
detected the shots, although unlike the tests of the previous days, it decided not to report them because they were non-ballistic missiles and therefore do not violate the
United Nations Security Council
resolutions
.
The previous North Korean test took place last Sunday, a launch of two short-range ballistic missiles that marked the seventh such weapons test in two weeks.
North Korea's series of tests are a measure of "self-defense" against
the United States,
according to Pyongyang media after the previous test, and took place in the context of joint maneuvers by Seoul, Washington and Tokyo in waters off the peninsula. korean
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