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and South Korea will henceforth be faced with the entity of more powerful strength.” She threatened to further strengthen her country’s nuclear doctrine, saying, “The pipe dream of the U.S. Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said the Biden-Yoon agreement revealed the two countries’ “most hostile and aggressive will of action” against the North. or its allies would “result in the end of whatever regime” took such action. Biden also issued a blunt warning that any North Korean nuclear attack on the U.S. nuclear-armed submarines in South Korea, strengthened joint training exercises and establishment of a new nuclear consultative group. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced steps to reinforce their deterrence capabilities such as the periodic docking of U.S. Last Friday, its state media called the drills “a typical North Korea-targeted war rehearsal,” saying it “cannot but take a more serious note of the fact” that the exercises are held a few kilometers (miles) from its frontier. North Korea didn’t immediately respond to the start of the drills. It said South Korea will seek to establish “peace through overwhelming strengthen” to counter North Korean threats. The troops later practiced precision-guided attacks on simulated targets in the rear areas to “completely annihilate” North Korean military threats, according to a ministry statement. The drills simulated artillery and aerial strikes on front-line North Korean military facilities in response to an attack. The most recent exercises in 2017 drew about 2,000 soldiers and 250 weapons assets from both countries. The drills involved 2,500 troops and 610 weapons systems such as fighter jets, attack helicopters, drones, tanks and artillery from South Korea and the United States, according to the South Korean Defense Ministry. The drills have been held 11 times since they began in 1977, according to the South Korean Defense Ministry. The U.S.-South Korean firing exercises, called “Combined annihilation firepower drills,” are the biggest of their kind. and South Korea, but observers say North Korea aims to advance its weapons development and then wrest greater concessions from its rivals in eventual diplomacy. It says the tests are a response to expanded military drills between the U.S. Since the start of 2022, North Korea has test-launched more than 100 missiles, but none since it fired a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile in mid-April.

exercises with missile and other weapons tests. North Korea typically reacts to such major South Korean-U.S. The drills, the first of five rounds of live-fire exercises through mid-June, mark 70 years since the establishment of the military alliance between Seoul and Washington. militaries conducted large live-fire drills near the border with North Korea on Thursday, despite the North’s warning that it won’t tolerate what it calls an invasion rehearsal on its doorstep. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The South Korean and U.S.

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