North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over live-fire drills where his military launched several suspected short-range ballistic missiles after his sister threatened the U.S. with consequences if it goes ahead with joint exercises with South Korea.
The so-called fire assault drill was to aimed at deterring an attack and countering any assault against the state, the official Korean Central News Agency said Friday. Kim said the exercises served a reminder that his soldiers “need to always stay alert for all sorts of more frantic war preparation moves being committed by the enemy,” it said.
North Korea launched a suspected short-range ballistic at around 6:20 p.m. Thursday from the western port city of Nampho toward the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in an initial text message to reporters. It later added there may have been multiple short-range ballistic missiles launched.
