North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has declared that the latest series of missile tests, carried out by Pyongyang send “adequate warning” over the South Korea-U.S. military drills.
The country’s local media reported on Wednesday that Kim made the statement when he inspected on Tuesday the launch of a new type of tactical guided missiles, the fourth missile test in 12 days.
According to media reports, Kim had watched the launches, which satisfies the “war capacity” of the new projectiles.
With the recent tests carried out satisfactorily, “Kim Jong Un noted that the said military action would be an occasion to send an adequate warning to the joint military drill now underway by the US and South Korean authorities,” media stated.
The drills are going to take place despite Pyongyang’s warnings that the exercises would compromise the possibility of nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea.
On Tuesday, Pyongyang fired two missiles that “are assumed to be short-range ballistic missiles” into the sea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said earlier.
U.S. President Trump last week downplayed North Korea’s launches calling them “very standard” while adding that Kim would not want to “disappoint” him.
Trump and Kim held a historic summit in Singapore last year, where North Korea made a vague pledge on nuclear disarmament.
But North Korea has again triggered over planned US-South Korea exercises, an annual event which the allies have refused to cancel but have scaled back significantly. These series of tests are being appeared as a response to planned military drills between South Korea and the US.
The recent Ballistic missile tests, conducted by North Korea would be a breach of UN Security Council resolutions that banned North Korea to develop such missile technology. North Korea ignores the restriction as a liberation of its self-defense right.