Posted on Sep 2, 2023
Kim Jong Un says nuclear weapons to be deployed to North Korea's navy
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country's navy would become “a component of the state nuclear deterrence,” state media said Tuesday, as the U.S., South Korea and Japan held a trilateral naval exercise to deal with North Korea’s evolving nuclear threats.
The U.S. and South Korean militaries have been separately holding summer bilateral exercises since last week. North Korea views such U.S.-involved training as an invasion rehearsal, though Washington and its partners maintain their drills are defensive.
Kim said in a speech marking the country’s Navy Day on Monday that the waters off the Korean Peninsula have been made unstable “with the danger of a nuclear war” because of U.S.-led hostilities, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
Kim said that military units of each service would be given new weaponry in line with the government’s decision to expand the operation of tactical nuclear weapons. He said the navy
This suggests North Korea would deploy new nuclear-capable missiles to its navy and other military services.
He also called for his military to be constantly ready for combat to thwart its rivals’ plots to invade his country.
The U.S. and South Korean militaries have been separately holding summer bilateral exercises since last week. North Korea views such U.S.-involved training as an invasion rehearsal, though Washington and its partners maintain their drills are defensive.
Kim said in a speech marking the country’s Navy Day on Monday that the waters off the Korean Peninsula have been made unstable “with the danger of a nuclear war” because of U.S.-led hostilities, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
Kim said that military units of each service would be given new weaponry in line with the government’s decision to expand the operation of tactical nuclear weapons. He said the navy
This suggests North Korea would deploy new nuclear-capable missiles to its navy and other military services.
He also called for his military to be constantly ready for combat to thwart its rivals’ plots to invade his country.
Kim Jong Un says nuclear weapons to be deployed to North Korea's navy
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Earlier this month, the leaders of the three countries agreed to conduct joint military exercises regularly, and on Tuesday their navies staged joint missile defense drills in international waters off South Korea's southern Jeju Island to improve their ability to detect and track targets, and share information in the event of provocation by Pyongyang, South Korea's military said.
"Owing to the reckless confrontational moves of the U.S. and other hostile forces, the waters off the Korean Peninsula have been reduced into the world's biggest war hardware concentration spot, the most unstable waters with the danger of a nuclear war," Kim was quoted as saying.
Pyongyang is believed to be accelerating its efforts to deploy submarine-launched ballistic missiles with strategic nuclear warheads as well as nuclear-equipped underwater drones.
Kim said North Korea requires its Navy to maintain war readiness, a "constant combat alertness," and called for "radically" modernizing its weapons and equipment.
Kim visited the navy command with his wife, Ri Sol Ju, sister, Kim Yo Jong, and daughter, Kim Ju Ae, pictures released by KCNA showed.
Kim's remarks came after South Korea and the United States last week began the Ulchi Freedom Shield summer exercises, designed to enhance their joint responses to North Korea's nuclear and missile threats. Pyongyang has long denounced the drills as a rehearsal for war.
As part of the exercises, the allies' special operations troops practiced infiltrating an enemy's coastline from the sea, riding rubber boats and emerging from the waves with diving gear and guns.
North Korea has conducted a record number of weapons tests this year, and last week carried out its second attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit, although it ended in failure.
Kim has declared North Korea an "irreversible" nuclear power and has called for ramped-up arms production, including tactical nuclear weapons."...
..."Earlier this month, the leaders of the three countries agreed to conduct joint military exercises regularly, and on Tuesday their navies staged joint missile defense drills in international waters off South Korea's southern Jeju Island to improve their ability to detect and track targets, and share information in the event of provocation by Pyongyang, South Korea's military said.
"Owing to the reckless confrontational moves of the U.S. and other hostile forces, the waters off the Korean Peninsula have been reduced into the world's biggest war hardware concentration spot, the most unstable waters with the danger of a nuclear war," Kim was quoted as saying.
Pyongyang is believed to be accelerating its efforts to deploy submarine-launched ballistic missiles with strategic nuclear warheads as well as nuclear-equipped underwater drones.
Kim said North Korea requires its Navy to maintain war readiness, a "constant combat alertness," and called for "radically" modernizing its weapons and equipment.
Kim visited the navy command with his wife, Ri Sol Ju, sister, Kim Yo Jong, and daughter, Kim Ju Ae, pictures released by KCNA showed.
Kim's remarks came after South Korea and the United States last week began the Ulchi Freedom Shield summer exercises, designed to enhance their joint responses to North Korea's nuclear and missile threats. Pyongyang has long denounced the drills as a rehearsal for war.
As part of the exercises, the allies' special operations troops practiced infiltrating an enemy's coastline from the sea, riding rubber boats and emerging from the waves with diving gear and guns.
North Korea has conducted a record number of weapons tests this year, and last week carried out its second attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit, although it ended in failure.
Kim has declared North Korea an "irreversible" nuclear power and has called for ramped-up arms production, including tactical nuclear weapons."...
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