Kim Jong-un calls for the “intensification” of military exercises that coincide with allied maneuvers

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Unrushed “intensify” the army maneuvers during a visit to a military base that coincides with the major spring warfare exercises they are carrying out South Korea It is U.S in the south of the peninsula, state media reported today.

Kim visited a “important operational training base”in the west of the country, the KCNA agency detailed today, in the company of Pak Jong-chonmember of the Presidium and vice-president of the Central Military Commission, in addition to the minister of National Defense, Kang Sun-namand the chief of the General Staff, Ri Yong-gil.

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During the visit the leader “established priority steps to intensify practical exercises to achieve victory in a real war”According to KCNA.

He also asked “intensify preparations for war based on the demands of the current situation“face to”contain the constant threat of the enemy” It is “successfully control even the smallest attempt to start a war”.

The visit coincides with the start, last Monday, of the major South Korean and American spring maneuvers.shield of freedom‘, which will last until March 14th and which Pyongyang criticized this week, arguing that its disproportionate scale seeks to intimidate the reserved Asian country.

North Korea He routinely criticizes these exercises as an attempt to invade his territory, while South Korea and the US argues that its nature is defensive.

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Although in recent weeks the Kim Jong Un did not carry out any weapons tests, the ‘Shield of Freedom’ comes at a time marked by the greatest hostility expressed by the North, which recently declared the South as its main enemy and eliminated the objective of reunification from the Constitution.

Added to this is the North Korean approach to Russiafor those who transferred thousands of containers with military equipment, such as artillery ammunition or ballistic missiles, which the Russian army used against Ukraine.

Source: Elcomercio

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