North Korea on Thursday (July 13) announced that it has successfully tested the new intercontinental ballistic missile "Mars Cannon-18", and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un guided the test shooting.
South Korea's United Staff Headquarters said on Wednesday (12th) that North Korea fired a long -range ballistic missile at 10 am on the same day to the waters near Pyongyang.The missile flight time is about 74 minutes, and 71 minutes of March 24, 2022, set the longest record in North Korean history.
The press release of the North Korean Society on Thursday stated that the test firing was a meaningful big event in North Korea's "strategic armed forces to strengthen the development process", and emphasized that this was a North Korean "defending national security and regional peaceful war of nuclear war.Holocaur, resolutely curb the hostile military stupidity of hostile forces, and strengthen the important part of legitimate defense rights. "
The press release said that Kim Jong-un personally instructed the test firing work of the "Mars Cannon-18" intercontinental ballistic missile at the scene.Important progress ".He vowed that North Korea would further adopt "more powerful military offensives" until the United States and South Korea changed their policy to North Korea.
South Korea's military refers to North Korea's ballistic missile test "is a serious provocation that destroys the peace and security of the Korean Peninsula", violated the UN's sanctions on Pyongyang, and called on North Korea to stop such operations.
The United Nations, the United States, and its allies, including France, have also strongly condemned it.
Yin Xiyue, a South Korean President Yin Xiyue attending the NATO Summit on the day of Lithuania, held an emergency meeting, instructing to further strengthen the extended deterrent execution through the meeting of the Korean and American Nuclear Consulting Group.
Yin Xiyue pointed out that North Korea must realize that illegal behavior will be paid.He instructed the participants to properly implement the bilateral and South Korean unilateral military and diplomatic measures between South Korea and the United States.
