Kim Jong Un of North Korea demands that the US and South Korea be prepared for a nuclear attack
According to official media, more than 1.4 million North Koreans have enlisted to serve in the military or have done so again.
According to state media, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has urged his nation to be prepared to use nuclear weapons to prevent conflict while accusing the United States and South Korea of conducting military exercises with American nuclear weapons.
Kim made his comments after the Hermit Kingdom fired a short-range ballistic missile into the ocean on Sunday, according to state media KCNA. According to South Korean and Japanese assessments, the missile traveled a distance of around 500 miles before landing in the sea off the east coast of the country.
Kim, who oversaw the test, said that the drills enhanced the military’s actual capacity for combat and highlighted the necessity of maintaining such readiness for any “immediate and overwhelming nuclear counterattack” through such exercises.
Kim was reported by KCNA as adding that the adversaries “are getting increasingly more pronounced in their moves for aggression against” his country and that the North “urgently” required to increase its nuclear war deterrence massively.
The DPRK’s nuclear force will use its high state of war preparedness to effectively prevent, manage, and control the enemy’s reckless actions and provocations, and carry out its vital job without hesitation in the event of any unfavorable situation, according to quotes from Kim.
Flames roared from the flying missile before it hit the target, and KCNA photographs showed Kim watching the test with his young daughter.
American B-1B strategic bombers have been used in air and sea drills that the U.S. and South Korea have been conducting for weeks as part of their yearly exercises. On Monday, the respective navies and marine corps of both nations are scheduled to begin their first significant Ssangyong amphibious landing exercises in five years. The exercises will last for two weeks, ending on April 3. North Korea has regularly denounced military drills, comparing them to a practice invasion.
More than 1.4 million North Koreans have volunteered to join or re-enlist in the military to fight against South Korean and US troops, according to a separate dispatch from KCNA. This is an increase from the 800,000 enlistees reported over the weekend.