DAccording to the state news agency KCNA, North Korea’s latest series of missile tests simulated shelling the south with tactical nuclear weapons. “The effectiveness and practical combat capability of our nuclear combat troops have been fully demonstrated as they are ready to hit and destroy targets anytime, anywhere,” KCNA reported Monday. The missiles used mock nuclear warheads to send a strong message of war deterrence.
The various tests simulated the shelling of military command facilities, the attack on important ports and the neutralization of airports in the south. The drills, overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, are an “inevitable response” to the mobilization of US and South Korean naval forces, the KCNA report said. “Even though the enemy keeps talking about dialogue and negotiation, we have nothing to talk about and we don’t feel the need to,” KCNA quoted Kim as saying.
North Korea fired two ballistic missiles early Sunday, making it the seventh such launch since September 25. South Korea and North Korea are still officially at war, after the two countries only agreed to an armistice and not a peace treaty in the wake of the 1953 Korean War.
