A North Korean submarine operating off North Korea’s east coast has gone missing.
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More than 17,000 troops from Republic of Korea and U.S. Marines and Navy along with 130 Australian and 60 New Zealand troops joined in the exercise. Since then, the United States has stepped up its efforts to watch as the North Korean navy looked frantically for its missing submarine.
Kim has ordered the country to improve its nuclear attack capability by conducting more tests, in defiance of a UN Security Council resolution adopted last week in response to the isolated state’s latest nuclear test. Kim also said his country had miniaturized nuclear warheads to mount on ballistic missiles, although the US and South Korean governments have expressed doubts about that too.
They take place against a backdrop of growing tension and missile tests just across the Demilitarized Zone in North Korea.
North Korean has issued another threat of war over the drill. It said North Korea would also impose “lethal” military, political and economic blows on the South Korean Government to accelerate its “pitiable demise ” . The nation recently demonstrated its capability to launch a ballistic missile from a submarine. “Dear comrade Kim Jong Un said work. must be strengthened to improve nuclear attack capability and issued combat tasks to continue nuclear explosion tests to assess the power of newly developed nuclear warheads and tests to improve nuclear attack capability”, KCNA said.
According to CNN reports, the U.S.is not sure whether the subterranean vessel has sunk or is adrift underneath the sea, but suspect the submarine may have suffered a failure during an exercise.
The U.N. sanctions were in response to North Korea’s nuclear test in January and long-range missile test in February. “At the end of the day, we sincerely believe in peace through strength, and it is in the strength of our alliance that we believe that we can deter and avoid war”, he said.
“We have a military operation plan of our style to liberate South Korea and strike the USA mainland ratified by our dignified supreme headquarters”, the North’s National Defense Commission said in its statement, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
Moreover, Pyongyang launched two short-range missiles on Thursday into the Sea of Japan in order to disrupt the drill.
North Korea invaded South Korea to unite the country under coercion.
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Despite global skepticism, Sunday’s article boasted that the North’s new weapon is more powerful than anything possessed by the former Soviet Union, based on an report published by South Korean news agency Yonhap.
