Kim Jong-un issues ‘nuclear war’ threat with three-word slur for enemy leaders
North Korea's despotic leader has issued a call for his military to ready themselves for combat against any invaders.
Kim Jong-Un made the rallying cry following a joint naval exercise by US, South Korea, and Japan aimed to handle evolving nuclear threats from the state.
US and South Korean militaries have been separately holding summer bilateral exercises since last week – but they claim these are defensive only.
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But according to state media, yesterday (August 28) Kim made a speech claiming that the waters off the Korean Peninsula have been made unstable "with the danger of a nuclear war".
He claimed that US-driven hostilities were the cause, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
Kim called President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida "the gang bosses" of the three countries.
"The prevailing situation requires our navy to put all its efforts into rounding off the war readiness to maintain the constant combat alertness and get prepared to break the enemy's will for war in contingency," Kim said.
A training exercise this morning included drills in international waters off South Korea’s southern Jeju island. It was aimed at mastering procedures for detecting, tracking and sharing missile information.
It was part of an 11-day bilateral drill run, which began on August 21.
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According to AP, the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield training is a computer-simulated command post-exercise. But they included field exercises this year.
North Korea typically responds to U.S.-South Korean military drills with its own missile tests.
The day the drills began, KCNA said Kim had observed the test-firings of strategic cruise missiles.
Since the beginning of 2022, North Korea has carried out more than 100 weapons tests, many of them involving nuclear-capable missiles designed to strike the US and its allies South Korea and Japan. Many experts say North Korea ultimately wants to use its boosted military capabilities to wrest greater concessions from the US.
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During his Navy Day speech, Kim said that military units of each service would be given new weaponry in line with the government's decision to expand the operation of tactical nuclear weapons.
He said the navy would become "a component of the state nuclear deterrence carrying out the strategic duty."
This suggests North Korea would deploy new nuclear-capable missiles to its navy and other military services.
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