THE South Korea and the USA began on Monday (13/3) their largest joint military high schools in five years, despite threats from North Korea, which announced a few hours earlier that it had launched two strategic missiles Cruise from a submarine.
THE Pyongyang he emphasized that the launch was aimed at testing “nuclear deterrents”, while criticizing the Freedom Shield high schools, which are to last for 11 days.
THE North Korea announced at the same time, as reported by the Athens News Agency, “the two strategic cruise missiles accurately hit their predetermined target in the East Sea of Korea”, after traveling 1,500 kilometers, as reported by the KCNA agency.
These launches were aimed at proving North Korea’s determination to control the situation in which, according to KCNA, “the US imperialists and their puppets, the South Korean forces, are increasingly openly advancing their military training against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”.
Images released by North Korean media show an 8.24 Yongung submarine, a missile being fired as well as white smoke and flames.
South Korea’s military general staff said it observed the launch of at least one unidentified missile from a North Korean submarine on Sunday.
Defense high schools
The Freedom Shield high schools provide drills “to repel any North Korean attacks and to conduct a North Korean stabilization operation,” the South Korean military explained.
At the same time he emphasized that these high schools are “defensive and based on a joint operational plan”.
This kind of military high schools they anger Pyongyang as it sees them as a rehearsal for an invasion of its territory, while it regularly warns it will take “overwhelming” action to respond.
In 2022, North Korea had declared its status as a nuclear power “irreversible” and conducted a record number of ballistic tests in violation of UN resolutions.
On Friday, KCNA reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had asked the country’s military to step up its high schools ahead of a “real war”.
Washington “has effectively recognized that North Korea will never give up its nuclear program,” said Ahn Chan-il, director of the Global Institute for North Korean Studies.
The Freedom Shield high schools will have “very different impacts – both quantitatively and qualitatively – than previous high schools that have been held in recent years,” he added.
It is possible that Pyongyang will use the high schools as an “excuse” to invest further in its equipment program, according to Chun In-bam, a retired South Korean army general.
“We have to expect other missile launches, of various types and ranges, and even a nuclear test. Further acts of intimidation by North Korea would not be surprising,” he added.
Source: News Beast
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