North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country should be ready to launch nuclear attacks at any time to end a war.
Kim Jong Un has accused the United States and South Korea of expanding joint military exercises involving US nuclear assets, the official KCNA news agency reported Monday.
Kim’s comments came as the isolated country conducted what the KCNA described as a nuclear tactical exercise aimed at sending strong warnings to allies.
The agency said that the exercises witnessed a test of a ballistic missile that flew a distance of 800 km before hitting the target at an altitude of 800 meters under a tactical nuclear attack scenario.
800 thousand volunteered in the army to fight America
North Korea’s official newspaper reported that hundreds of thousands of the country’s citizens have either volunteered to join its army or re-enlisted to fight once morest the United States.
And the Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported that on Friday alone, regarding 800,000 students and workers expressed their desire to enlist or rejoin the army to confront the United States.
On the other hand, the South Korean news agency “Yonhap” said, on Sunday, that the United States will redeploy the “B-1B” strategic bomber in South Korea, to participate in the “Freedom Shield” maneuvers, shortly following Pyongyang launched a short-range ballistic missile towards the sea.
The B-1B bomber will participate in the “Freedom Shield” maneuvers that South Korea and the United States launched on March 13 and will continue until March 23, which is the largest maneuver between the two parties in 5 years.
In these maneuvers, the latest war fighters of both sides, such as the F-35 fighter, participate.
According to Unihap, the redeployment of the B-1B bomber in South Korea is seen as a US show of force once morest North Korea.
Earlier Sunday, North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile towards the sea, its neighbors said.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff of the South Korean army said in a statement that the missile, which was launched from the northwestern region of North Korea, flew over the country’s airspace, before falling into the waters off the east coast.
North Korea also launched a few days ago the “Hwasong-17” intercontinental ballistic missile.