North Korea moves 250 missile launchers to southern border.
Pyongyang staged a celebration to mark the deployment of the launchers. North Korea claims stationing more nuclear capable weapons on the border is a necessary deterrent to the US and South Korea
Pyongyang staged a celebration to mark the deployment of the launchers. North Korea claims stationing more nuclear capable weapons on the border is a necessary deterrent to the US and South Korea.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the delivery of 250 nuclear-capable missile launchers to military units along the southern border, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Monday.
In a speech during the event, which took place on Sunday, Kim said the launchers were an “up-to-date tactical attack weapon” which he “personally designed.”
The “transferring ceremony” included lines of army-green launcher trucks filling up a long street, with seemingly thousands of spectators
attending the event, which included fireworks, according to images on state media.
“We believe [the missile launchers] are intended to be used in various ways, such to attack or threaten South Korea… Deploying near the border would mean that the range is not long,” Lee Sung-joon, spokesperson for South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a media briefing.
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