North Korea simulates nuclear strikes on South Korea.
North Korea Simulates Nuclear Strikes on South Korea
North Korea has recently conducted two missile tests, claiming that they were designed to simulate nuclear strikes on South Korea. According to North Korean state media, these missile launches were intended to simulate “scorched earth” nuclear strikes and even rehearsed an occupation of South Korea.
The regime’s military wing stated that two tactical ballistic missiles were fired from Pyongyang, targeting major command centers in South Korea in the event of a war.
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The statement from North Korea’s military indicated that the missiles carried out simulated strikes through air bursts, confirming the explosions of dummy warheads at a set altitude. The detonation of a nuclear warhead at high altitude could cause catastrophic damage through the initial blast and its electromagnetic burst.
South Korean and Japanese assessments suggest that the two tactical missiles traveled approximately 250 miles at a maximum altitude of 30 miles before landing in the waters between Korea and Japan.
North Korea Claims US Preparing Invasion
North Korea stated that these missile tests were a response to the United States’ flyover of long-range bombers over South Korea for a joint aerial training exercise. Pyongyang condemned the exercises as a “serious threat” and accused the United States of preparing an invasion. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff called the launches “a grave provocation” that could destabilize the region and undermine international peace efforts.
North Korean General Secretary Kim Jong Un emphasized that these tests demonstrated the North’s ability to deal a heavy blow to the enemy’s war potential and command center. The Pentagon, on the other hand, urged restraint and called on North Korea to refrain from provocative behavior.
US, South Korea Grow Closer
North and South Korea have technically been in a state of something resembling war since 1950. The resulting Korean War was never formally terminated with a peace agreement, but hostilities effectively ceased with the signing of an armistice in 1953. In recent years, the United States and South Korea have drawn closer amid continued threats of nuclear annihilation from the North.
Efforts are currently underway in Congress to replace the armistice with a peace deal, although they are contentious and unlikely to gain traction. The relationship between the United States and South Korea reached a high point in April when President Joe Biden received South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Washington. The two leaders signed the Washington Declaration, strengthening the United States’ commitment to defending South Korea under its nuclear umbrella in exchange for South Korea not pursuing the development of nuclear weapons.
Since then, the United States has sent two nuclear submarines to South Korea.
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