{"id":17569,"date":"2023-03-13T14:18:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T08:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=17569"},"modified":"2023-03-13T14:18:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T08:33:52","slug":"north-korea-launches-missiles-as-us-south-korea-kick-off-major-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=17569","title":{"rendered":"North Korea launches missiles as US, South Korea kick off major drills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SEOUL &#8211;<\/strong> North Korea said Monday it had test-fired two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine, as South Korea and the United States kicked off their largest joint military exercises in five years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nuclear-armed Pyongyang said the test verified its &#8220;nuclear war deterrence means in different spaces&#8221; as it slammed the drills &#8212; known as Freedom Shield &#8212; which will run for 10 days from Monday as part of the allies&#8217; drive to counter North Korea&#8217;s growing threats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The two strategic cruise missiles precisely hit the preset target on the East Sea of Korea,&#8221; the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. North Korea is not technically banned from firing cruise missiles under current UN sanctions &#8212; although tests relating to its nuclear arsenal are not allowed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The KCNA report said the test was linked to the United States and South Korea &#8220;getting evermore undisguised in their anti-DPRK military manoeuvres&#8221;, referring to the North by its official name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The South Korean military said it had detected the launch of at least one unidentified missile from a North Korean submarine Sunday morning.Photos and video released by North Korean state media showed the submarine, the &#8220;8.24 Yongung&#8221;, and a missile flying into the sky from the water, trailing white smoke and flames.Analysts said &#8220;huge doubts&#8221; remain about how advanced the North&#8217;s submarine programme is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Park Won-gon, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, said the state media images suggested the missile was fired from above the water.&#8221;Then there is no point in shooting from a submarine because there is no stealth,&#8221; Park told AFP.&#8221;North Korea says the weapons are deployed, but whether we believe it with credibility is another matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8211; Defensive drill &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Freedom Shield drills &#8220;involve wartime procedures to repel potential North Korean attacks and conduct a stabilisation campaign in the North&#8221;, the South Korean military has said.It emphasised that the exercise was a &#8220;defensive one based on a combined operational plan&#8221;.But North Korea views all such exercises as rehearsals for invasion and has repeatedly warned it would take &#8220;overwhelming&#8221; action in response.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;North Korea has been speaking in missiles against joint drills,&#8221; said Go Myong-hyun, a researcher at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul. &#8220;It wants to emphasise that the reason for developing missiles is for self-defence purposes.&#8221;The foreign ministry in Pyongyang also released a statement Monday slamming the United States over what it called &#8220;the US vicious &#8216;human rights&#8217; racket&#8221;, after Washington said it would hold a UN meeting this week on abuses in North Korea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8211; More to come &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, North Korea declared itself an &#8220;irreversible&#8221; nuclear power and fired a record-breaking number of missiles.Leader Kim Jong Un last week ordered his military to intensify drills to prepare for a &#8220;real war&#8221;.Washington has repeatedly restated its &#8220;ironclad&#8221; commitment to defending South Korea, including using the &#8220;full range of its military capabilities, including nuclear&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Korea, for its part, is eager to reassure its increasingly nervous public about the US commitment to so-called extended deterrence, in which US military assets, including nuclear weapons, serve to prevent attacks on allies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the official policy of both countries towards North Korea-that Kim must give up his nukes and return to the table for talks &#8212; has not changed, experts said there had been a practical shift.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States has &#8220;effectively acknowledged that North Korea will never give up its nuclear programme&#8221;, An Chan-il, a defector turned researcher who runs the World Institute for North Korea Studies, told AFP.The Freedom Shield drill is the first since that happened, meaning it &#8220;will be very different-both qualitatively and quantitatively-from previous joint exercises that took place in recent years&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korea will likely use this &#8220;as an excuse&#8221; to double down on its banned weapons programmes, said Chun In-bum, a retired South Korean army general.&#8221;More missile launches with variations in style and scope should be expected with even a nuclear test. 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