North Korean leader Kim Jong supervised the test of two types of new antiëir missiles, state media said Sunday, showing their expanding military capabilities as the South Korean and American military carry out joint simulations.
The official Central Korean news agency of the North said that the test on Saturday showed that missiles are effective to contaminate aerial threats such as drones and cruise missiles, and that Kim assigned specific tasks “to defend scientists before the next next to the next one before a specialization.
The report did not specify the missiles that were tested or where the event took place. He did not mention any Kim comments aimed at Washington or Seoul.
Korean Central News Agency/Korea news service through AP
The evidence coincided with the trip of the new South Korean president Lee Jae Jae Myung to Tokyo for a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ihiba, where they promised to strengthen bilateral cooperation and its trilateral association, ambitions as commissioner inhabitants. Lee was going to Washington on Sunday for a summit with President Trump.
The Kim government has repeatedly ruled out the calls of Seoul and Washington to restart long -standing negotiations aimed at scoring their nuclear weapons and missile programs, Ash. He continues to prioritize Russia As part of a foreign policy aimed at expanding ties with nations that face the United States.
From the invasion of Russia of Ukraine, Kim has sent thousands of troops And great arms shipments, including artillery and ballistic missiles, to help boost President Vladimir Putin’s war.
That has raised concerns about Moscow could provide technology that strengthens Kim’s nuclear weapons, and experts point to the old North Korean radar systems as a probable area of cooperation.
The previous conservative Government of South Korea said in November that Russia supplied missiles and other teams to help strengthen the air defenses of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, but not specifically what systems were tested.
Kim celebrated a ceremony in Pyongyang last week to honor North Korean soldiers who fought in Ukraine, granting state titles of “heroes” to those who returned and placed medals along with 101 portraits of the fallen, praising them as “great men, great heroes and great patriots,” the state media reported.
According to the evaluations of South Korea, North Korea has sent around 15,000 troops to Russia since the past fall and around 600 of them have died in combat. Kim also agreed to send thousands of military construction workers to the Kursk region of Russia, a South Korean intelligence deployment believes that it could happen soon.