Oct. 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, has personally inspected this Wednesday a test launch of two long-range ballistic missiles that would serve to reinforce the deterrence of a war in the country in the current context of rising tensions with Korea. of the South and the United States.
Specifically, Pyongyang has launched two strategic ballistic missiles that have flown for almost 20 minutes making “a figure eight over the Sea of Japan” to finally hit the target, 2,000 kilometers away, according to the North Korean agency KCNA.
The launch of the missiles has been carried out with the purpose of “further” improving North Korea’s combat performance, as well as the power of long-range ballistic missiles deployed by the North Korean Armed Forces.
Kim has expressed his “great satisfaction” with the results of the tests, and has assured that in this way Pyongyang demonstrates “once again” that it is prepared for combat and that it can “subdue the enemies in a single blow with a counterattack”. stalwart, mobile, precise and powerful.”
Likewise, the North Korean leader has emphasized that Wednesday’s missile explosion is “a clear and unequivocal warning” to North Korea’s enemies, adding that “the absolute reliability and combat power of North Korea’s deterrence” have been verified again. war” of the country’s Army, according to the aforementioned agency.
In recent weeks, North Korea has launched several ballistic missiles in tests prohibited by UN Security Council resolutions, in response to US-Korean military exercises it considers an invasion test.
In the early hours of October 4, Pyongyang launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile that flew over Japanese territory to fall into the Pacific Ocean, outside Japanese airspace, an event that had not happened since 2017.
