North Korea conducts drills targeting US, South Korea
North Korea claims it practised hitting important enemy targets in response to the recent drawn-out war simulations between the South and the United States.
The Vigilant Storm war games, which lasted six days, came to an end on Saturday. They included almost 240 fighter jets flying 1,600 sorties. The exercises’ sheer size, according to the US Air Force, was unheard of.
According to the North’s military, the drills on Monday were “a dangerous war drill of very high aggressive type” and a “open provocation aimed at purposely raising the tension,” according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
The military further stated that in response, it had taken actions that mimicked attacking enemy air bases and aircraft.
The North test-fired numerous missiles, including perhaps an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), and a large number of artillery shells into the ocean throughout the combined drills.
Additionally, the North Korean military claimed to have practised attacking a significant South Korean city in order to “smash the adversaries’ incessant war frenzy.”
It acknowledged launching two ostensibly nuclear-capable “strategic” cruise missiles on November 2 in the direction of the waters around Ulsan, a coastal city in the southeast with a nuclear power plant and huge industrial parks.
North Korea conducts drills targeting US, South Korea
Two “tactical ballistic missiles loaded with dispersion warheads” were also launched as part of the operations. A “special functional warhead paralysing the enemy’s operation command system” was also tested, as was a “all-out combat sortie” involving 500 fighter jets.
It said, “The more comprehensively and savagely the KPA (the Korean People’s Army) will oppose them, the more persistently the adversaries’ provocative military manoeuvres continue.”
