North Korea’s Nuclear Attack Exercise By Richard Miller (London)
North Korea has recently conducted invasion of South Korea exercises, including the simulated use of nuclear strikes, raising the tensions even higher in the region. North Korea claims that this was a response to the Ulchi Freedom Shield annual military exercises, involving US and South Korean troops, even though it fires missiles over Japan whenever the urge strikes.
Conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, is so concerned about the nuclear threat from North Korea, that the president has aired the idea of South Korea developing a nuclear weapons program of its own, given South Korea’s lack of confidence in the Biden regime. And, with a neighbour like North Korea, who can blame South Korea? Thus, the world moves ever-closer to the inevitable first nuclear bomb of the 21st century being exploded in warfare. Once the nuclear ice is broken, there will be a chain reaction, as nuclear powers in hostile relations across the world, settle scores with the ultimate fire cracker of doom.
“The communist government of North Korea revealed on Thursday that it held multiple military exercises aimed at practicing nuclear weapons assaults on South Korea and “occupying the whole territory” of the country.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the communists’ state media outlet, detailed the exercises and claimed them necessary in response to the Ulchi Freedom Shield annual military exercises currently taking place with American and South Korean troops. Ulchi Freedom began on August 21 and is expected to have some exercises continue into September.
Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises have been a staple of the U.S.-South Korean partnership for years. Washington, under former President Donald Trump, suspended the exercises briefly in 2018 in recognition of communist dictator Kim Jong-un agreeing to meet with him in Singapore, the first such meeting between the heads of state of both countries. By August 2018, however, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis confirmed that the drills would go on.
Kim’s public belligerence has escalated significantly under leftist current President Joe Biden, who has failed to organize any meaningful high-level exchanges with North Korea. The White House claimed this month that Biden offered Kim an in-person meeting “without preconditions,” but Kim declined.
While Biden has treated North Korea’s nuclear threats as a second-tier foreign policy issue, conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has worked to reverse the conciliatory policies of left-wing predecessor Moon Jae-in, publicly speculating that he would consider a nuclear weapons program for South Korea and convincing Biden to reverse decades-old policy and send a nuclear-armed American submarine to South Korea in July.
Biden’s absence on the issue and Yoon’s assertiveness followed Kim ordering his regime to deliver an “exponential increase” in North Korea’s nuclear weapons arsenal in late December.
On Thursday, KCNA claimed Kim’s army is working to ensure they can properly aim the bombs. KCNA described the Ulchi Freedom exercises as “little short of informing the world that they made the preemptive nuclear strike at the DPRK [North Korea] a fait accompli.” Allegedly in response, Pyongyang “staged a tactical nuclear strike drill simulating scorched earth strikes at major command centers and operational airfields” in South Korea.
“The missile unit fired two tactical ballistic missiles northeastward at Pyongyang International Airport and correctly carried out its nuclear strike mission through air bursts at a preset altitude of 400 meters above the target island,” the communist propaganda outlet claimed.
In a separate report, KCNA claimed Kim Jong-un personally oversaw a command drill by the Korean People’s Army (KPA) meant to simulate the colonization of South Korea.
Kim “acquainted himself with the plan of the drill staff, which is aimed at occupying the whole territory of the southern half [South Korea],” KCNA claimed.
“He stressed the need to pay the greatest attention to making the enemy dispirited, throwing their combat action into confusion and paralyzing their will and ability to fight a war,” the state outlet relayed, “from the outset by dealing heavy blows at their war potential and war command center and blinding their means of command communication at the initial stage of operation.”
The plan reportedly involved “making simultaneous super-intense strikes at the pivotal military command centers, military ports, operational airfields and other important enemy military targets and core objects whose destruction may cause a series of socio-political and economic chaos.”
The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) confirmed on Thursday that North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan (or East Sea), an apparent protest against the joint exercises. The nation’s Unification Ministry issued a statement threatening Pyongyang with “overwhelming responses” if it continued to shoot missiles at its neighbors.”
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