North Korea stated that current South Korea-US drills have been an “open provocation”. (Representational)

Seoul:

North Korea’s navy stated on Monday that current South Korea-US navy workout routines have been an “open provocation and dangerous war drill,” and it had responded with measures simulating placing their air bases and warplanes, state media KCNA stated.

Last week, North Korea test-fired a number of missiles together with a attainable failed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and a whole lot of artillery shells into the ocean, as South Korea and the United States carried out six-day air drills till Saturday.

The North’s navy stated the “Vigilant Storm” workout routines have been an “open provocation aimed at intentionally escalating the tension” and “a dangerous war drill of very high aggressive nature.”

The North’s military stated it had carried out actions simulating varied assaults on their air bases and plane, in addition to a significant South Korean metropolis, to “smash the enemies’ persistent war hysteria”

It confirmed firing two apparently nuclear-capable “strategic” cruise missiles on Nov. 2 towards the waters off Ulsan, the southeastern coastal metropolis housing a nuclear energy plant and enormous manufacturing unit parks.

The operations additionally included a launch of two “tactical ballistic missiles loaded with dispersion warheads,” a take a look at of a “special functional warhead paralysing the operation command system of the enemy,” and an “all-out combat sortie” involving 500 fighter jets.

The General Staff of the North’s Korean People’s Army (KPA) accused Seoul and Washington of eliciting a “more unstable confrontation,” and vowed to counter their drills with “sustained, resolute and overwhelming practical military measures.”

“The more persistently the enemies’ provocative military moves continue, the more thoroughly and mercilessly the KPA will counter them,” it stated in a press release carried by the official KCNA information company.

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