North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised tests of long-range cruise missiles, which he described as a successful demonstration of his military's expanding nuclear strike capabilities and readiness for 'actual war,' state media said Thursday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised tests of long-range cruise missiles, which he described as a successful demonstration of his military's expanding nuclear strike capabilities and readiness for "actual war," state media said Thursday.
South Korean officials say Kim may also conduct a nuclear test in the coming weeks or months, escalating a pressure campaign aimed at forcing the United States to accept the idea of North Korea as a nuclear power that can negotiate economic and security concessions from a position of strength. He said that the tests send "another clear warning to enemies" and vowed to further expand the operational realm of his nuclear armed forces to "resolutely deter any crucial military crisis and war crisis at any time and completely take the initiative in it."
North Korea said those drills were meant as a warning to Seoul and Washington for staging "dangerous" joint naval exercises involving the nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in recent weeks, which were intended as the allies' show of strength in the face of growing North Korean threats.
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