North Korea says artillery able to ‘open hearth’ on South — RT World Information
Any “provocation” by Seoul will finish in a “horrible catastrophe,” Kim Jong-un’s sister has warned
The North Korean army has ordered frontline artillery models to “get absolutely able to open hearth” on South Korea after South Korean drones allegedly dropped propaganda leaflets over Pyongyang, the state-run KCNA information company reported on Sunday.
The North Korean authorities claimed on Friday that the South flew drones carrying propaganda leaflets over the Northern capital on three separate events this month, together with two flights earlier this week. Whereas North Korea has responded to earlier propaganda campaigns by sending balloons stuffed with garbage and excrement southwards, the most recent incidents warrant a army response, KCNA reported.
“The Common Workers of the [Korean People’s Army] issued a preliminary operation order on October 12 to the mixed artillery models alongside the border…to get absolutely able to open hearth,” the company wrote, citing the North Korean Protection Ministry.
The order positioned “eight artillery brigades absolutely armed at full wartime energy on standby to open hearth,” the report added.
North Korea is believed to have greater than 10,000 artillery items dug in alongside its southern border, 6,000 of that are in vary of main South Korean inhabitants facilities, based on a 2020 report by the RAND Company, a suppose tank funded by the US army. If a struggle broke out between the 2 Koreas, greater than 205,000 individuals could possibly be killed in Seoul, Incheon, Gimpo, and different South Korean cities inside an hour, the RAND report estimated.
In an announcement carried by KCNA on Sunday, Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean chief Kim Jong-il, warned that Pyongyang views the South’s “leaflet-scattering” as “a grave politically-motivated provocation and an infringement upon sovereignty.”
“The second {that a} drone of [South Korea] is found within the sky over our capital metropolis as soon as once more will definitely result in a horrible catastrophe,” Kim declared.
South Korean Protection Minister Kim Yong-hyun initially denied sending drones into North Korean airspace. Nevertheless, the nation’s Joint Chiefs of Workers then acknowledged that they “can’t affirm whether or not the North Korean allegations are true or not.”
The drone spat got here lower than a month after North Korea introduced that it had examined a brand new variant of its Hwasong-11 ballistic missile armed with a “super-large” 4.5 ton typical warhead. This announcement got here inside weeks of the US and South Korea concluding large-scale army workout routines within the area. Whereas Washington and Seoul described the workout routines as defensive in nature, the North Korean International Ministry referred to as them “provocative struggle drills for aggression.”
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