North Korea’s recent barrage of missile launches was designed to test its capability to strike the South with tactical nuclear weapons as a warning after the United States’ and South Korea’s joint military drills, state media reported Monday.
TOKYO — The announcement comes after a flurry missile tests carried out with little explanation and offered leader Kim Jong Un’s response to the increasingly coordinated actions by South Korea, Japan and the United States.
North Korea’s seven tests since late September included a new intermediate-range ballistic missile and a short-range ballistic missile fired from an underwater silo, the report said, as the country works to diversify the types and locations of missile launches to evade missile defenses.North Korea said it is not interested in resuming diplomatic talks with the United States or South Korea.
Pyongyang’s latest statement underscored the contentious diplomatic standoff as the United States and South Korea harden their positions over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and its preparations for its seventh test of a nuclear weapon. The announcement also coincided with a North Korean holiday celebrating the country’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea.
After scaling back exercises during the pandemic and nuclear diplomacy that ultimately failed, the allies have been conducting drills since August to demonstrate their readiness to work together in the event of a conflict with the North. The allies say the exercises are defensive in nature, but Pyongyang has long viewed them as hostile acts and used them to justify its weapons development and nuclear program.
State media blamed the allies for “taking a regretful attitude further escalating the tension in the region” in their use of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan.While the United States says it is open to dialogue, the Biden administration has been unwilling to grant the sanctions relief that Kim seeks. North Korea has continued to test his ballistic missiles in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning such tests.
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