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Seoul's Military Announce North Korea’s Fires Missile Ahead Of South Korea-US Military Exercise

According to reports hours after the leader, Kim Jong Un was on the ground to witness "a powerful volley" organised by an artillery unit, an attempt ready to respond to the actual war

Seoul's military announced North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on Thursday, days before South Korea and the United States’ major joint military exercises.

According to reports hours after the leader, Kim Jong Un was on the ground to witness "a powerful volley" organised by an artillery unit, an attempt ready to respond to the actual war.

However, the report did not specify the weaponry observation by Kim in the "fire assault drill" simulating the destruction of an enemy airport.

Meanwhile, relations between the two Koreas are at one of their worst intensities in decades, with the nuclear-armed north conducting more provocative banned weapons tests. And Seoul has ramped up security cooperation with Washington in response.

Kim's regime has already declared North Korea an "irreversible" nuclear power and has further planned to increase its production of weapons, including tactical nuclear weapons, as the United States looks forward to moving more assets to the region to defend ally Seoul.

Commenting on the matter, Seoul's joint chiefs of staff said of detecting the launch of one short-range ballistic missile from the North's western port city of Nampo.

It added it was analysing the possibility of North Korea firing multiple short-range ballistic missiles from the same region simultaneously.

"Our military has developed a ready posture in close cooperation with the US while strengthening surveillance and vigilance," it said.

The North Korean country dismissed all war weaponry talks and claimed its nuclear weapons and missile programs are for self-defence and has stood over the US-South Korea military exercising rehearsals for an invasion.

Reports claim earlier this week North Korea blamed the US for intentionally ramping up war tensions supporting its rival. 



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