North Korea announced on the 12th that it conducted training to launch two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine in the eastern bay facing the Sea of Japan.
It seems that the purpose is to strongly check the United States and South Korea, which started regular joint military exercises from the 13th.
On the 13th, North Korea's Korean Workers' Party organ newspaper "Rodong Sinmun" reported that training to launch two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine was held at dawn on the 12th in a bay in the eastern part of Hamgyong South Province facing the Sea of Japan. I was told it was done.
Regarding strategic cruise missiles, North Korea announced last month that it launched four missiles from the northeast toward the Sea of Japan, but this is the first time that it has announced that it was launched from a submarine.
The paper contains photographs of submarines surfacing in the dim light and missiles rising above the sea.
The missile was said to have flown 1,500 kilometers over the Sea of Japan in two hours and six minutes in a figure-of-eight trajectory and hit its target. He emphasized his confrontational stance toward the United States and South Korea.
Regarding this, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff also announced that North Korea conducted a missile test from a submarine near Sinpo in the eastern part of the country on the morning of the 12th.
North Korea protested the regular U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises that started on the 13th, and at an expanded meeting of the party's Central Military Commission, ``We have decided on serious practical measures to aggressively use war deterrence. It was just announced yesterday, and it seems that the launch of missiles from submarines for the first time since May last year is intended to strongly restrain both the United States and South Korea.