North Korea Regulated Live Artillery Firing Under Kim’s Order
The state media reports on Monday morning that there can be an ignition of skirmishes between North and South Korea as the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un orders the North Korean troops to conduct artillery drills near the clashing sea boundary with South Korea that is currently being dealt with, stunting the discussion about the global concern of nuclear power.
According to the Central News Agency of North Korea, it was the first known trip of Kim to a front-line combat unit after he entered the negotiation of nuclear talks with the United States last year. On his first inspection of a troops unit on Changrin Islet off the west coast, he ordered to conduct heavy firing. The nuclear talks between North Korea and the United States are temporarily ceased as North Korea puts pressure on Washington to withdraw hostile and interfering policies on the country.
It is said by KCNA that the coastal artillery force was given order by Kim to perform firing before setting a target for the heavy firings. The troops did what they were asked for to fully show the strength in their ammunition and to delight the national leader.
The islet where the firing was performed is situated in the north of the inter-Korean maritime boundary, a place that had witnessed many nasty naval clashes between the two rivals in the past daunting years. The blood feud between the two countries is so deep-rooted that the rivalry is being continued even today. A few years back, in 2010, North Korea struck artillery shooting on a small island of South Korea that resulted in killing four people. Adding more to that, North Korea, that year only was accused to send a torpedo at a South Korean warship at the boundary that killed at least 46 sailors.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry indicated tremendous regret after the latest fire drills from North Korea emphasizing that they violated last year’s inter-Korean deals that strongly suggested keeping the military acrimony lower in the boundaries.
The Spokeswoman Choi Hyun-soo expressed her concern to the reporters saying that it is time to eliminate any aggressive acts that can harm the holistic relationship between the two countries and increase more political tension between them. They should immediately take a step back from violating peace and follow the protocols decided in the 2018 tension-reduction agreements.
There is an improvement made between the two Korean countries after Kim participated in the discussion of nuclear weaponry and negotiations with President Donald Trump in Singapore in June last year. Kim also attended meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in three times last year.
The nuclear negotiations are interrupted since February as Trump has declined Kim’s demands for broad sanctions relief in return for dismantling his main nuclear complex, a partial denuclearization step. Inter-Korean relations have hit the rock-bottom in recent times when North Korea hurled at South Korea with severe criticism for failing to break away from the U.S. and restore joint economic projects held by the U.N. sanctions.
In recent months North Korea trialed military ammunition with test-fires probably targeting South Korea. North Korea has even threatened to pull apart South Korean-built buildings that were a joint tourism project of North and South Korea.
So far North Korea has not taken off prohibition on a long-range missile and nuclear tests that Trump has relished as his major success in his North Korea policy. Kim now has pressurized Trump to make some changes in hostile policies and turn up with new acceptable proposals to continue the nuclear negotiation with the United States.
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