The influential sister of North Korea's leader warned on Tuesday that her nation is prepared to take "quick, overwhelming action" against the United States and South Korea, a day after the United States demonstrated its strength against the North by flying a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber.
Monday's US-South Korean training over the Korean Peninsula with the B-52 bomber was the latest in a series of exercises between the allies in recent months. This month, their military is also set to relaunch their greatest field drills, USA Today reported.
North Korea's Warning Against 'Enemies'
Kim Yo Jong did not detail any planned actions in her remarks. However, North Korea has frequently test-fired missiles in reaction to US-South Korean military exercises because it considers them an invasion rehearsal.
The General Staff of North Korea's Korean People's Army announced, hours after Kim Yo Jong's announcement, that it had placed its front-line artillery units on alert and increased surveillance after detecting a live-fire artillery practice by "the enemy" near the South Korean border town of Paju on Tuesday morning.
The General Staff stated that around thirty rounds were fired during the South Korean practice, which it termed a "very severe military provocation" that exacerbated tensions, and demanded its competitor to cease such exercises along the border immediately.
The GSD subsequently urged the United States and South Korea to discontinue military operations along the border. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff stated that the allegations were absurd and that there was no artillery training in that location, according to The Independent.
In addition, the United States and South Korea are on pace to resume large-scale military drills for the first time since 2018. Due to the stalemate in US-North Korea diplomatic attempts and the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the drills were considerably cut back after 2018.
Meanwhile, North Korea is revving its military engine, conducting more missile tests than ever in contemporary history. In a declaration issued last month, North Korea's leader, Kim Yo Jong, threatened to transform the Pacific Ocean into her country's shooting range.
US-South Korea Military Exercise
She said that if the US intercepted a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile, her brother might consider the action a declaration of war. Yo Jong quoted a South Korean media claim that the United States would strike down North Korean missiles if it conducted a test launch aimed at the Pacific Ocean.
In a separate statement, the head of North Korea's Foreign Ministry's Foreign Press Division accused the United States of "worsening" the situation by conducting a joint air practice with a B-52 bomber on Monday and planned US-South Korea field drills.
In response, South Korea's Unification Ministry, which oversees contacts with the North, blamed Pyongyang's "reckless nuclear and missile development" for the worsening situation.
The United States deployed the B-52 bomber in a combined exercise with South Korean fighter planes, which the South Korean defense ministry interpreted as a show of force against North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.
The two countries will undertake over ten days of large-scale military exercises known as "Freedom Shield." Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday that US and South Korean jets practiced a rapid takeoff in response to North Korean threats to attack airfields.
Tuesday, the enemy fired 30 rounds of artillery along the border, according to the North Korean army, which demanded an immediate end to these "provocative activities." As per Reuters via MSN, South Korea denied doing so and stated that the accusation was without merit.
As a result of the 1950-1953 Korean War, which concluded in an armistice rather than a peace treaty, keeping the countries nominally at war, around 28,500 US forces were stationed in South Korea.
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