PYONG YONG: North Korea has claimed a recent barrage of missile launches is a test of its strategic nuclear weapons aimed at "killing and destroying" potential South Korean and US targets, state media reported on Monday. Leader Kim Jong Un indicated he would conduct more provocative tests in the coming weeks.

North's statement, which was delivered on the 77th birthday of its ruling Workers' Party, is seen as an attempt to bolster public support for Kim as he deals with the economic hardships posed by the pandemic, which is fueled by strong US- There is a threat to security from the South. Korean military alliance, as well as other challenges.

According to the North's official Korean Central News Agency, "through seven times of tactical nuclear operations units' exercises, the actual combat capabilities ... and at any given time were demonstrated in full."

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According to KCNA, recent naval exercises between US and South Korean forces, which involved the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, prompted missile tests.

According to KCNA, North Korea decided to "simulate a real war" in response to what it saw as a military threat in the exercise to test and strengthen its war resistance and to warn its adversaries .

North Korea views the US-South Korean military exercise as an offensive exercise, despite the allies strongly denying the opposite. US and South Korean forces have been increasing their exercises since the inauguration of a conservative government in Seoul in May.

Previously, these exercises were withdrawn due to the pandemic and now defunct nuclear diplomacy between Pyongyang and Washington.

A nuclear-capable ballistic missile was launched under a reservoir to the northeast, another ballistic missile also intended to attack a South Korean airspace simulating the loading of a strategic nuclear warhead, and a new type A ground-to-surface ballistic missile that flies over Japan. According to KCNA, all were part of the launch, all of which were under Kim's supervision.

Informing South Korea and the United States of North Korea's nuclear response posture and attack capabilities, Kim said the launches were "a clear warning" to him, according to KCNA.

According to KCNA, "we are always and vigorously looking at the crisis situation and steady, deliberate and irresponsible acts of escalating tensions between the US and South Korean regimes will only invite our greater response."

Kim reiterated that he has no plans to resume disarmament talks with the United States at this time and that he would prefer to focus on increasing his arsenal of weapons.

Kim was quoted as saying that we have no material for talks with enemies and felt no need to do so. "The enemies are still talking and negotiating while making military threats to us," Kim was quoted as saying.

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 "Most importantly, we must send a clear signal to the adversaries who escalate the regional situation by engaging the armed forces on a larger scale with more powerful and willful will and action at any time."
In response to possible future actions by South Korea and the United States, Kim announced that he would vigorously take whatever vague military measures would be required.

Additionally, he expressed his confidence that his military's nuclear warheads would "maintain their strongest nuclear reaction posture and strengthen it in every way possible" to accomplish their mission.

According to some experts, Kim's remarks mean he could conduct additional high-profile weapons tests, such as his country's first nuclear test in five years. North Korea is reportedly still preparing to conduct its seventh nuclear test and test a new liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile and submarine-launched ballistic missile, according to South Korean officials. Is.

Representatives of the US government have urged North Korea to resume talks without any sanctions. However, North Korea has said it will not do so unless the US first lifts its hostile policies towards the North, a clear nod to ongoing military exercises between the US and South Korea and US-led economic sanctions. signal.

According to some experts, Kim will eventually use his sophisticated nuclear program to try to persuade the US to recognize North Korea as a legitimate nuclear state, which Kim believes is his country. It is necessary to lift the United Nations sanctions against Professor Leif-Eric Easley of Iwa University in Seoul said North Korea "now has many motivations to publish a high-profile missile story." Kim Jong Un's return to public life after a month's absence is a patriotic headline to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party.

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Pyongyang is explicitly stating that its recent missile launches are motivated by a nuclear threat in order to strengthen its self-declared deterrent in response to military drills by the US, South Korea, and Japan. The KCNA report might also portend a future nuclear test of a tactical warhead that would arm the units Kim visited in the field, according to Easley.