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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected the demonstration of a "new-type tactical guided weapon" on Thursday as a warning to South Korea to stop importing high-tech weapons and conducting joint military exercises with the United States, state media KCNA said on Friday.
North Korea test-fired two new short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, South Korean officials said, its first missile test since Kim and US President Donald Trump agreed to revive denuclearisation talks last month.
The KCNA report did not mention Trump or the US, but it said Kim criticised South Korean authorities for carrying on with joint exercises, which are usually conducted with US troops.
"We cannot but develop nonstop super-powerful weapon systems to remove the potential and direct threats to the security of our country that exist in the South," Kim said, according to KCNA.
He accused South Koreans of "double dealing" for saying they support peace but simultaneously importing new weapons and conducting military drills.
South Korea's leader should stop such "suicidal acts" and "should not make a mistake of ignoring the warning," Kim said.
Kim said he was satisfied with the rapid response and low-altitude trajectory of the weapon, which he said would make it difficult to intercept.
Seoul's National Security Council said on Thursday it believed the missiles were a new type of ballistic missile, but it would make a final assessment with the US.
Ballistic missile tests would be a violation of UN Security Council resolutions that ban North Korean use of such technology. North Korea rejects the restriction as an infringement of its right to self-defence.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday July 26 2019, @09:25PM (7 children)
To be fair, nowhere in the summary do they say the new weapon is nuclear.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Friday July 26 2019, @09:36PM (1 child)
US analysts suspect North Korea may have developed 12 nukes since first Trump-Kim summit [washingtonexaminer.com]
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 26 2019, @10:49PM
FTFY:
Anonymous sources make up fake news. [washingtonexaminer.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by janrinok on Saturday July 27 2019, @11:55AM (4 children)
The missile wasn't carrying a nuclear warhead, but that doesn't mean it isn't nuclear capable. There can be no doubt that N Korea has some nuclear warheads, and the threat comes from not knowing which missiles might be carrying one. Dare S Korea risk anything that might mean that the response from N Korea will be nuclear? If the first missile is inbound, do you assume that it is NOT nuclear and wait until it detonates, or do you assume that it IS nuclear and retaliate before you suffer a massive strike? Can you guarantee to stop all incoming missiles? Do you bet on Kim being smart enough to not risk everything?
By the time you get to actually using a nuclear warhead the game has been lost. The reason that there hasn't been a nuclear war is because none of the potential players can guarantee that they will be the winner.
(Score: 1, Disagree) by RandomFactor on Saturday July 27 2019, @07:25PM
SK should have made the job of protecting itself, and the US protecting it, less impossible by not providing NK tens of millions of next to the border hostages, effectively and asymmetrically attackable by cheap 1950's tech.
Instead the policy has been this weird alternating combination of Nevil Chamberlain and 'sanctions'
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday July 29 2019, @03:53PM (2 children)
I'd like to think it's, because we know how awful those things are. You think conventional weaponry has collateral damage, Nuclear Weapons are the definition of collateral damage. You're destroying the environment, doing who knows what kind of damage to the atmosphere, and killing many, many regular citizens. The use of Nuclear Weapons as a weapon should be avoided, essentially at all costs. Only insane people think, it's okay to consider using Nuclear Weapons. I'd also, like to think that, if we'd known what we do now about Nuclear Weapons. The USA wouldn't have used them on Japan. Then again, the horrors of war, make you do some pretty terrible things. Here's hoping, that those with the ability, never get to that point.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 29 2019, @04:35PM
You're the first person in a long-ass time I've wanted to tell to use fewer commas
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday July 29 2019, @05:34PM
Unfortunately, there is no evidence in indicate that nuclear weapons would not be used if a country thought that they could gain an advantage by using them.