This photograph reveals Patriot missiles put in at Camp Humphreys, a United States Military garrison in Pyeongtaek, about 60 kilometers south of Seoul, Dec. 18, 2023. Yonhap
North Korea’s state media on Tuesday ramped up criticism towards joint navy drills by South Korea and the US, calling them a „nuclear struggle train,“ however made no point out of the North’s ballistic missile check a day earlier.
North Korea fired what gave the impression to be a number of close-range ballistic missiles towards the Yellow Sea on Monday, based on South Korea’s navy, within the North’s first ballistic missile check since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White Home.
No state information media, together with the Korean Central Information Company (KCNA), had revealed a report on the ballistic missile launch as of Tuesday morning.
The KCNA as an alternative revealed an article on the launch of the joint train, Freedom Defend, calling it an „incursive, confrontational struggle rehearsal.“
„It’s yet one more largest-ever joint navy train,“ launched at a time when navy drills between the U.S. and „puppet South Korean navy gangsters“ had been carried out at an unprecedentedly „frantic“ degree, the KCNA stated.
„It clearly reveals who’s chargeable for worsening the safety scenario on the Korean Peninsula,“ it stated.
In a separate article, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper, which caters to the overall North Korean readers, additionally denounced the joint navy train as a „nuclear struggle train“ focusing on North Korea.
The newspaper accused the allies of „mobilizing numerous sorts of newest nuclear struggle tools, an enormous scale of invasion forces and civilians“ to hold out the train yearly throughout South Korea.
It marks the most recent within the North’s back-to-back condemnations of the joint train. On Monday, the nation lambasted it as a „harmful provocative act.“
South Korea and the U.S. kicked off Freedom Defend on Monday for an 11-day run, involving computer-simulated drills and on-field coaching, as a part of their annual common workout routines to counter threats from North Korea.
For this 12 months’s train, the 2 sides plan to stage 16 large-scale on-field drills, up from 10 final 12 months, to strengthen their mixed protection posture towards North Korean threats and different challenges, together with the regime’s rising navy cooperation with Russia. (Yonhap)
