- According to a text from the North Korean General Staff published by the state agency KCNA.

Undated footage released on November 7, 2022, by the North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows the North Korean military firing missiles at undisclosed locations.

Pyongyang describes the US and South Korean exercises as "unforgivable" and assures that it will respond "mercilessly"

North Korea on Monday described the recent exercises by South Korea and the US, to which it responded by launching some thirty missiles last week, as "intolerable and inexcusable", and assured that if they continue with this type of action, their army will respond. in a "more rigorous and merciless" manner.

In a text from the North Korean General Staff published by the state agency KCNA, these large air maneuvers by the allies, called Vigilant storm, were also called "open provocation aimed at deliberately increasing tension in the region" and a series of operations were detailed the military carried out between days 2 and 5.

Among them, Pyongyang claims to have launched on November 2 four tactical ballistic missiles loaded with dispersal warheads and anti-bunker warheads at an uninhabited island in the Yellow Sea and then 23 surface-to-air missiles to test the destruction of "air targets at different altitudes and distances".

One of the missiles launched on Wednesday landed near South Korean territorial waters, something that had never happened before and that led Seoul to respond by launching precision bombs in the direction of the neighboring country's coastline.

The regime claims that, in response, it launched two more strategic cruise missiles from its northeast coast that traveled about 590 kilometers and crashed in waters about 80 kilometers from the South Korean city of Ulsan (southeast coast).

The KCNA text also assures that on November 3 the northern army carried out a "major test launch of a ballistic missile" to "verify the reliability of the movement of a special functional warhead when it comes to paralyzing the command system of enemy operations.

This refers to the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that triggered anti-aircraft alerts in Japan and that both Seoul and Tokyo believe failed in mid-flight.

In that vein, KCNA posted a photo of the launch of what appears to be a modified Hwasong-15 missile, the longest potential ICBM Pyongyang has successfully tested to date.

Tension on the peninsula is reaching unprecedented heights in the face of repeated North Korean weapons tests, allied maneuvers, and the possibility that, as satellites indicate, Kim Jong-un's regime is ready for its first test nuclear since 2017.

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