North Korea announced on the 23rd that it had successfully conducted a drill to launch four strategic cruise missiles into the Sea of Japan.
North Korea has made clear its confrontational stance toward the United States and South Korea, which continue joint training and exercises, saying that it has ``strengthened its nuclear counterstrike capability against hostile forces by a factor of 100''.
On the 24th, North Korea's Korean Workers' Party organ newspaper "Rodong Sinmun" announced that the military's strategic cruise missile unit will conduct training to launch four strategic cruise missiles from Hamkyung North Province in the northeast toward the Sea of Japan. I did it on the 23rd and told him it was a success.
This is the fourth missile launch by North Korea this year.
During the drill, "four missiles flew in an oval or figure-eight trajectory for more than 2 hours and 50 minutes and hit targets set in the Sea of Japan 2,000 kilometers away."
He also emphasized that the purpose of the training was to "censor and judge the rapid response posture of the strategic cruise missile unit, which constitutes an important part of Japan's nuclear deterrence," and emphasized that it was a training assuming an attack by a nuclear weapon. increase.
On top of that, he has made clear his confrontational stance against the United States and South Korea, which continue joint training and exercises, saying that "the nuclear counterattack capability against hostile forces has been strengthened 100 times."