He supervised a missile test with his daughter
North Korean leader threatens to use nuclear weapons in response to any attack
North Korean leader walking with his daughter at the ballistic missile launch site
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, oversaw the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile accompanied by his daughter, whom he presented to the world for the first time, according to pictures published yesterday by the official North Korean news agency, and threatened that he would use nuclear weapons in the event of a nuclear attack against his country.
The North Korean leader stressed that the intercontinental ballistic missile is a reliable weapon with maximum capacity to contain external threats.
And the official North Korean News Agency said, “Kim went with his beloved daughter and wife to the launch site of the Hwasong-17 missile.” And state media published pictures showing Kim walking in front of a giant missile accompanied by his daughter, who was wearing a white jacket. North Korea's successful missile launch.
The agency stated that the missile flew at a maximum altitude of 6040.9 km, and traveled a distance of 999.2 km before landing precisely in the predetermined area in the East Sea or the Sea of Japan.
"The test launch clearly confirmed that the new major strategic weapon system is reliable," North Korean state media confirmed.
Since Kim announced, last September, that “North Korea has formally established a policy that makes its nuclear status irreversible,” Washington has strengthened regional security cooperation, including conducting joint military exercises, and searching for ways to enhance the protection it provides to Seoul and Tokyo.
Seoul and Washington conducted the largest joint air exercises in their history in late October and early November, and the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff stated, in a statement, that South Korea and the United States conducted, yesterday, a joint air exercise with the B-1B strategic bomber of the US Air Force, Which was republished on the Korean peninsula.
The American bomber was redeployed as part of joint air exercises between Seoul and Washington, and the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said that some of the most advanced aircraft in the US and South Korean air forces participated in the exercises, including the hidden F-35 fighter.
The B-1B supersonic bomber no longer carries nuclear weapons, but the US Air Force considers it "the backbone of the long-range bomber weapon" capable of striking anywhere in the world.
Kim described the maneuvers as a "hysterical war of aggression" and vowed to respond firmly and with nuclear weapons to any use of nuclear weapons, according to the Korean Central News Agency.
North Korea said on March 24 that it had tested the Hwasong-17 missile, which is among the most powerful weapons in Pyongyang. In early November, Pyongyang launched an unprecedented series of missile tests, one of which fell near South Korean territorial waters.
November 2 alone witnessed the launch of 23 North Korean missiles, more than all missiles launched in 2017, when the North Korean leader and then-US President Donald Trump exchanged threats of a nuclear response.
Re-deployment of the American B-1B bomber to the Korean Peninsula.
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