SEOUL: North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said military drills by the United States, Japan and South Korea justify North Korea’s nuclear reinforcement, state media KCNA said on Tuesday ( Nov 5 ).
Kim criticized the airstrikes and “more than 20” martial training the friends have carried out this year as well as North Korea’s recent testing of a sizable fresh solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile dubbed Hwasong-19.
Given such dangers, North Korea will not be swayed from the way of strengthening its nuclear barrier, KCNA said.
The North and South Korean militaries tracked its spaceflight before dumping it into the sea between Russia and Japan, and North Korea’s ICBM start next week flew higher than any earlier North Korean missile.
After the launch, South Korean and US air pushes conducted first-ever combined live-fire attack training that involved the International Hawk and the Reaper robots, dropping GPS-guided weapons in simulated attacks against army goals, South Korea’s air pressure said.
Washington and its supporters in South Korea, Japan, and Europe, as well as the United Nations secretary-general, swiftly condemned the ICBM start next month, which occurred soon after North Korea began sending troops to support Russia’s war in Ukraine.
However, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected the rebuilding of places close to the nation’s borders with China that had previously experienced heavy rain and floods on Monday, according to KCNA on Tuesday.  ,