China News Service, March 13 (Xinhua) According to the Korean Central News Agency, in the early morning of March 12, North Korea conducted strategic cruise missile submarine launch training and achieved expected results.
Image source: Korean Central News Agency
According to reports, the two strategic cruise missiles flew for a total of 7,563 seconds and 7,575 seconds along a figure-of-eight trajectory set in the East Sea of North Korea to simulate a distance of 1,500 kilometers, and hit the target.
According to reports, the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea expressed satisfaction with the results of the launch training.
Through the launch training, the reliability of the weapon system was confirmed, and the combat situation of the submarine force's water-to-ground attack was tested and judged.
Image source: Korean Central News Agency
The report also stated that through the submarine launch training, it clearly stated that the North Korean military must always "use overwhelming strength" to control the unchanging position of the US and South Korea's anti-North Korean military operations, and proved that "nuclear war containment means can be used in different spaces." regular operation".
On the same day, the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement saying that when the large-scale U.S.-South Korea exercises will be staged on the 13th, the United States plans to forcefully hold an informal meeting of the UN Security Council with its followers to discuss the unwarranted "human rights issues" of North Korea.
The statement stated that the United States' suppression of "human rights" is the most concentrated manifestation of its hostile policy towards the DPRK, which the DPRK strongly condemns and fully opposes.
The statement pointed out that the United States once again played the useless "human rights card" with sinister intentions, which the DPRK has already seen through.
It is a well-known fact that the United States used "human rights issues" as a tool of internal affairs interference for the purpose of bringing down the sovereign state system and regime change a long time ago.
The statement emphasized that the contest between North Korea and the United States is not only a contest of strength, but also a contest of ideas and systems.
In order to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and interests, we will take super-strong countermeasures against the hostile activities of the United States and its followers.
According to Yonhap News Agency, the South Korean and US military will hold the "Freedom Shield" exercise from the 13th to the 23rd. The exercise will last for 11 days in the form of simulating actual combat.
During the joint exercise, South Korea and the United States will focus on more than 20 exercises, including the joint landing exercise code-named "Shuanglong", the joint special warfare exercise code-named "Teak Knife", and the joint field maneuver named "Warrior Shield". Training will resume to a level above that of Harrier Eagle training.