Han said the missile command gives the South Korean people confidence and strikes fear in South Korea’s enemies, adding that it will become a core strike unit of the Kill Chain system.
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It was escorted by a South Korean jet and an American jet.
South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo visited the missile command on Saturday and called on the troops to retaliate speedily and accurately and without hesitation to any provocations by North Korea. South Korea’s Defense Ministry did not immediately confirm the reports.
Seoul also planned to use mobile speakers to broadcast from a small South Korean island just a few kilometers (miles) from North Korean shores.
The broadcasts include Korean pop songs, world news and weather forecasts as well as criticism of the North’s nuclear test, its troubled economy and dire human rights conditions, according to Seoul’s Defense Ministry.
The test angered North Korea’s main ally China and the United Nations is working on new measures against Pyongyang, already internationally isolated from previous nuclear tests.
“We hope that our fellow Koreans in the North will be able to live in a society that doesn’t invade individual lives as soon as possible”, a female presenter said in parts of the broadcast that officials revealed to South Korean media. The initial US intelligence assessment “is not consistent with North Korean claims of a successful hydrogen bomb test”, said Josh Earnest, White House Press Secretary on Wednesday.
Diplomats at a U.N. Security Council emergency session pledged to swiftly pursue new sanctions.
The United States has deployed a strategic B-52 bomber for a low altitude demonstrative flight over South Korea to demonstrate the alliance’s might and determination following North Korea’s latest provocative underground nuclear test. “The B-52 was joined by Republic of Korea F-15 fighter aircraft and U.S. F-16 fighter aircraft”. B-2 and B-52 bombers are capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
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If may take weeks to confirm North Korea’s claims to have tested a hydrogen bomb, but several experts said the blast was not large enough to have been from such a device.
