The North Korean navy has revealed particulars of missile operations it performed from Wednesday via Saturday.
The ruling Employees’ Celebration newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, on Monday quoted the Normal Workers of the Korean Folks’s Army as saying it performed the navy operations in response to joint air drills being carried out by the USA and South Korea.
The Normal Workers stated its forces fired 4 tactical ballistic missiles on Wednesday to simulate a strike on an enemy air power base.
It additionally stated its forces fired two strategic cruise missiles on the open sea round 80 kilometers off the coast of Ulsan Metropolis, South Korea, later that day.
South Korea’s navy stated one of many missiles crossed the de facto inter-Korean maritime border for the primary time.
The North’s Normal Workers additionally famous its navy items performed test-firings of ballistic missiles on Thursday to “confirm the motion reliability” of a warhead. It stated its forces fired “super-large a number of launch missiles and tactical ballistic missiles.”
The South Korean navy reported {that a} missile that the North launched on that day could have been a Hwasong-17, a brand new sort of intercontinental ballistic missile.
The North Korean navy careworn it should proceed to reply to all enemy warfare drills with “overwhelming sensible navy measures.”
