PUBLISHED : 4 Jan 2024 at 09:56
SEOUL – South Korean and United States troops have carried out joint fight firing drills close to the border with North Korea involving heavy weapons, as Pyongyang lambasted the allies for harmful strikes pushing the area to the brink of “an inferno of nuclear battle.”
The train by a South Korean Military mechanised infantry brigade and US Military armoured Stryker brigade was to check and improve fight readiness simulating enemy aggression, South Korea mentioned in an announcement on Thursday.
The drills passed off over per week beginning on Dec 29 and ended on Thursday, the South Korean Military mentioned.
The allies have dramatically elevated the dimensions and depth of joint drills prior to now 12 months amid escalating stress on the Korean peninsula as Pyongyang examined each long-range ballistic missiles and tactical weapons designed to strike targets within the South and the Pacific.
The US has additionally deployed extra navy belongings close to the Korean peninsula together with a nuclear missile submarine, plane carriers and enormous bombers.
Wrapping up a serious ruling celebration assembly, chief Kim Jong Un on Saturday lashed out at Washington for deploying massive weapons and vowed to extend the North’s nuclear arsenal and develop assault capabilities to “pacify the South.”
The North referred to as the joint firing drills “reckless battle manoeuvres” and mocked South Korea for backing Washington’s hegemonic ambitions “when it has no probability of profitable or survival.”
“With the intuition of confrontation deep of their bones, the puppets once more marked the brand new 12 months by making the aggressive alternative that stokes battle,” the North’s official Korean Central Information Company (KCNA) information company mentioned in a commentary.
“2024 is the 12 months of the best threat of battle,” it mentioned.
The joint drills concerned greater than 110 massive fight weapons together with South Korean military tanks, anti-aircraft artillery and fight earthmovers supported by US navy assault plane and armoured preventing automobiles, the Military mentioned.
South Korea’s navy on Wednesday carried out reside firing drills and anti-submarine manoeuvres within the waters within the east, west and the south involving destroyers, frigates and corvettes, the navy mentioned.
