North Korea’s Kim Orders Nuclear Warhead Test, Missile Launches
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reportedly ordered the country's military to prepare to conduct a nuclear warhead explosion test and multiple ballistic missile launches "in a short time."
Relatively, the official North Korean KCNA news agency said on Tuesday that the order came after Kim supervised a successful simulated test of the atmospheric re-entry of a ballistic missile.
The news agency added that the preparation aimed to "further enhance the reliance of nuclear attack capability."
The announcement by Pyongyang is the latest in a series of similar remarks and warnings made on a nearly daily basis since the United Nations Security Council [UNSC] imposed the harshest US-designed sanctions on North Korea, including bans on exports, earlier this month.
Following the Tuesday announcement by KCNA, South Korea's Defense Ministry said it did not detect any evidence that Pyongyang acquired missile re-entry technology or the ability to guide the rocket after it re-enters the atmosphere.
In a related context, Kim said last week that his country had successfully miniaturized nuclear warheads so they can be used on ballistic missiles.
Relations between North and South Korea have been turbulent for years in which Seoul and Pyongyang fought a war in the early 1950s, and have been at odds ever since.
Tensions have escalated further recently following Pyongyang's fourth nuclear test in January and the start of joint military exercises by Washington and Seoul.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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