State media reported on Tuesday ( Mar 19 ) on Tuesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw firing drills involving “newly-equipped super-large” multiple rocket launchers, a day after Seoul claimed Pyongyang had fired a number of short-range ballistic missiles.
One of the United States and South Korea’s biggest joint military exercises was completed last week, which sparked unhappy retorts and live-fire drills from nuclear-armed Pyongyang, which denounces all of these exercises as rehearsals for conquest.
As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to the South Vietnamese capital for talks, the Seoul-based military announced on Monday that it had detected the North’s launch of “multiple short-range projectile rockets.”
The extremely- large many rocket launcher, referred to as KN- 25 by the Seoul- Washington military, is a brief- range nuclear missile, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
The North claims that the tool can be equipped with a military nuclear weapons.
Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA ) said Kim guided the drills on Monday that tested the “real war capabilities” of 600mm multiple rocket launchers as he stressed the importance of “war preparations”.
The drills included simulated flying explosion of a shell from a super-large many rocket launcher at a preset level above the target, according to KNCA.
Kim claimed that the various rocket launcher would aid the North in “blocked and suppress the possibility of battle with the unwavering perfect readiness to decline the capital of the enemy” in a report.
North Korean artillerymen “demonstrated their outstanding crack-shot artillery archery and fast and thorough fight readiness” during the drills, the statement continued.
” Large shells of super-large multiple rocket launchers, which were fired like lava from the strong weapons containers, flew to the goal with the intention of annihilating the enemy,” it said.