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North Korea has revealed photographs of its latest missile launches, including an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), while condemning recent military exercises between South Korea and the United States as a “open provocation and deadly war practice” to which it had to react. North Korea will continue to respond to military exercises by South Korea and the United States with “sustained, resolute, and overwhelming practical military measures,” the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Monday, citing a statement from the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army. North Korea launched numerous missiles this week, including a probable failed intercontinental ballistic missile, cruise missiles, and hundreds of artillery rounds, while South Korea and the United States extended their Vigilant Storm air exercises from five to six days in response to Pyongyang’s tests. According to the KCNA article, the North Korean military described the drills as a “open provocation designed to purposely escalate tensions” and a “dangerous war simulation of a very high hostile type.” Hundreds of American and South Korean aircraft, including B-1B bombers, participated in Operation Vigilant Storm. It was the first time since December 2017 that B-1Bs have flown to the Korean peninsula. KCNA said that North Korea’s army simulated many strikes on enemy air bases, planes, and a key South Korean city in order to “crush the enemies’ incessant war hysteria.” It was not specified if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the launches. It acknowledged launching two allegedly nuclear-capable “strategic” cruise missiles on November 2 into the seas near the southeastern South Korean city of Ulsan. One of the missiles landed 26 kilometers (16 miles) south of the Northern Limit Line, which acts as an unofficial maritime boundary between the two Koreas. This is the first time this has occurred since the armistice that concluded the Korean War in 1953. The exercises also included the firing of two “tactical ballistic missiles laden with dispersion warheads,” the testing of a “unique functional warhead paralyzing the enemy’s operating command system,” and a “combat sortie” involving 500 fighter planes. North Korea often reacts strongly to joint US-South Korea exercises, seeing them as invasion preparations. According to experts, Pyongyang is especially sensitive to exercises like Vigilant Storm because its air force, which lacks high-tech planes and well-trained pilots, is one of the weakest components of the military.
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काठमाडौँ। अमेरिकी उपराष्ट्रपति कमला ह्यारिस आज(बिहीबार) उत्तर कोरिया र दक्षिण कोरियाबीचको सिमाना (डिमिलिटराईज जोन) जाँदैछन् । दुई मुलुकबीच तनाव बढेको समयमा ह्यारिसको भ्रमण हुन लागेको छ । केही दिनअघि मात्र उत्तर कोरियाले पाँच वर्षपछि दक्षिण तथा अमेरिकाबीच हुन लागेको नौसैनिक अभ्यासले ‘द्वन्द सिर्जना’ गर्ने जोखिम बढाउने चेतावनी दिएको थियो । ह्यारिस विश्वकै सबैभन्दा ठूलो सैन्य उपस्थिति रहने डिमिलिटराईजको दक्षिणी भागमा जानेछिन् । र उनी सन् २०१९ मा तत्कालिन राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्प उनका उत्तर कोरियाली समकक्षी किम जोङ उनसँग उक्त क्षेत्रमा गएपछि सो क्षेत्र पुग्ने सबैभन्दा ठूलो अमेरिकी नेता हुनेछिन् । ह्यारिस त्यहाँ गएर सन् १९५०-५३ मा भएको कोरियाली युद्धमा मारिएका लाखौं अमेरिकी तथा कोरियाली सैनिकको ‘बलिदान’ को स्मरण गर्नेछिन् । निक्कै हिंस्रक रहेको सो तीन वर्षे युद्ध अन्त्य गर्ने खालको हालसम्म कुनै सम्झौता भएको छैन । दुई मुलुकबीच युद्ध विरामको सहमति मात्र भएर युद्ध थामिएको स्थिति रहेको छ । उत्तर कोरियाले यो वर्ष हालसम्मकै सबैभन्दा धेरै संख्यामा हतियार परिक्षण गर्यो । ती परीक्षण श्रृङ्खलामा उसले सन् २०१७ पछि पहिलो पटक अन्तर-महादेशिय ब्यालेष्टिक मिसलाईल पनि परीक्षण गर्यो । उत्तर कोरियाले थप उन्नत हतियार विकास गर्ने संकेत गरेको छ । आइतबार उसले छोटो दुरीको ब्यालेष्टिक मिसाइलको परीक्षण उडान गर्यो । सो परिक्षण अमेरिकी र दक्षिण कोरियाली फौजबीच युद्धअभ्यास सुरु हुनुभन्दा एक दिनअघि भएको थियो । मंगलबार सिन्जो आबेको राजकीय अन्त्येष्टिमा सहभागी हुन टोकियोमा रहेकी ह्यारिस बुधबार दक्षिण कोरिया पुगेकी थिइन् ।