North Korea ready to mobilise nuclear forces - Kim Jong-un

 

North Korea is prepared to mobilise its nuclear forces, pioneer Kim Jong-un has claimed.

Speaking at a Korean War commemoration occasion, Kim said boosting North Korea's defense is an "urgent historical task" adding that the nation was "fully ready for any military confrontation" with the US, state news office KCNA revealed.

The remarks come in the midst of worry that North Korea could be setting up a seventh nuclear test, which the US cautioned last month could occur out of the blue.

North Korea's latest nuclear test was in 2017. In any case, tensions have been rising on the Korean peninsula.

North Korea has tested a remarkable number of missiles this year - 31 contrasted to 25 during the entire of its last record-breaking year, 2019, as indicated by the US special delegate to North Korea Sung Kim.

In June South Korea answered by launching eight missiles of its own.

Albeit the 1950-53 Korean War finished in a détente, North Korea claims it as a triumph against the US. The yearly "Victory Day" festivities are set apart by military processions, fireworks and dancing.

In his discourse to mark the occasion on Wednesday, July 27, Kim said nuclear threats from the US expected North Korea to accomplish the "urgent historical task" of expanding its self-defence.

The US had misrepresented North Korea's standard military excercises as provocations, he added.

Kim also addressed reports that South Korea is planning to counter the North Korean nuclear threat by mounting precautionary strikes in the event of an imminent attack.

 

Kim said that South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol's government and military would be "obliterated" if he carried out pre-emptive strikes.

 

Since taking office in May, South Korean President Yoon has laid out a new, more aggressive defence policy towards North Korea. It would allow South Korean forces to pre-emptively strike the North, if Seoul believes it is under imminent threat of a nuclear attack from Pyongyang.

 

This so-called "Kill Chain" strategy proposed by South Korea would allow South Korea to launch pre-emptive ballistic missiles and air strikes on North Korean targets, including taking out the North Korean military command and control structures. In other words, attempting to kill Kim Jong-Un himself.