Kim Jong-un supervises war games with new type of tank in North Korea

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Unsupervised some war games in which a new type of tank participated, in what represents yet another war simulation that coincides with the military maneuvers that take place today South Korea It is U.S in the south of the peninsula.

Himself Kim Jong Un He drove one of these new tanks, according to information and multiple photos published today, Thursday, of the exercise – which took place the day before – by the state agency KCNA.

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During the exercise, a “competition” wherein 105th Armored Divisionfamous for being the first to enter South Korea make the city fall into North Korean hands during the beginning of the Korean War in June 1950.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in a new main battle tank after a training competition between joint forces of the Northern People’s Army at an undisclosed location in North Korea, March 13, 2024. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) (STR/ )

Kim himself recalled that it is “a unit that carries the important tradition and history of having occupied the enemy capital”In another apparent message from the marshal to the South.

Last week, the North Korean leader oversaw live-fire artillery maneuvers in which a border unit participated, which, Kim recalled, Seoul “at your shooting range”.

These exercises coincide with the big spring maneuvers’shield of freedom‘that Seoul and washington since March 4th and ending today.

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Pyongyang tends to harshly criticize these exercises because it considers them a rehearsal for invading its territory.

Although in recent weeks North Korea did not carry out any weapons tests, the allies’ ‘Freedom Shield’ maneuvers come at a time marked by the greatest hostility expressed by the regime, 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 Moscowfor 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