The communist government of North Korea revealed on Thursday that it held multiple military exercises aimed at practicing nuclear weapons assaults on South Korea and “occupying the whole territory” of the country.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the communists’ state media outlet, detailed the exercises and claimed them necessary in response to the Ulchi Freedom Shield annual military exercises currently taking place with American and South Korean troops. Ulchi Freedom began on August 21 and is expected to have some exercises continue into September.
Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises have been a staple of the U.S.-South Korean partnership for years. Washington, under former President Donald Trump, suspended the exercises briefly in 2018 in recognition of communist dictator Kim Jong-un agreeing to meet with him in Singapore, the first such meeting between the heads of state of both countries. By August 2018, however, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis confirmed that the drills would go on.
