Any “provocation” by Seoul will finish in a “horrible catastrophe,” Kim Jong-un’s sister has warned
The North Korean navy has ordered frontline artillery items to “get totally able to open fireplace” on South Korea after drones from the South allegedly dropped propaganda leaflets over Pyongyang, the state-run KCNA information company reported on Sunday.
The North Korean authorities claimed on Friday that the South flew drones carrying propaganda leaflets over the capital on three separate events this month, together with two flights earlier this week. Whereas North Korea has responded to earlier propaganda campaigns by sending balloons full of garbage and excrement southwards, the newest incidents warrant a navy response, KCNA reported.
“The Common Workers of the [Korean People’s Army] issued a preliminary operation order on October 12 to the mixed artillery items alongside the border…to get totally able to open fireplace,” the company wrote, citing the North Korean Protection Ministry.
The order positioned “eight artillery brigades totally armed at full wartime power on standby to open fireplace,” the report added.
North Korea is believed to have greater than 10,000 artillery items dug in alongside its southern border, 6,000 of that are in vary of main South Korean inhabitants facilities, in response to a 2020 report by the RAND Company, a assume tank funded by the US navy. If a battle broke out between the 2 Koreas, greater than 205,000 individuals may very well be killed in Seoul, Incheon, Gimpo, and different South Korean cities inside an hour, the RAND report estimated.
In an announcement carried by KCNA on Sunday, Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean chief Kim Jong-il, warned that Pyongyang views the South’s “leaflet-scattering” as “a grave politically-motivated provocation and an infringement upon sovereignty.”
“The second {that a} drone of [South Korea] is found within the sky over our capital metropolis as soon as once more will definitely result in a horrible catastrophe,” Kim declared.
South Korean Protection Minister Kim Yong-hyun initially denied sending drones into North Korean airspace. Nevertheless, the nation’s Joint Chiefs of Workers then said that they “can’t affirm whether or not the North Korean allegations are true or not.”
The drone spat got here lower than a month after North Korea introduced that it had examined a brand new variant of its Hwasong-11 ballistic missile armed with a “super-large” 4.5-ton typical warhead. This announcement got here inside weeks of the US and South Korea concluding large-scale navy workout routines within the area. Whereas Washington and Seoul described the workout routines as defensive in nature, the North Korean International Ministry known as them “provocative battle drills for aggression.”
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