According to the Korean Central News Agency on the 29th, North Korea announced that it would test the submarine-launched strategic cruise missile "Rocket-3-31" on the 28th local time. North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un instructed and observed the test launch on the spot.
The report said that the two cruise missiles flew over the waters east of North Korea for 7,421 seconds and 7,445 seconds respectively before hitting the island target. The relevant test launches did not have an impact on the surrounding areas and had nothing to do with the regional situation.
According to reports, Kim Jong-un reiterated that the nuclear armament of the navy is an urgent task of the times and a core requirement for the construction of the country's nuclear strategic armed forces.
South Korea said on Sunday that North Korea had fired multiple cruise missiles off its coast, but did not provide details.
On the 24th local time, the DPRK Missile Administration tested the new "Rocket-3-31" strategic cruise missile under development for the first time. The North Korean side said that the relevant test launch did not have an impact on the surrounding area and had nothing to do with the regional situation. According to the DPRK Missile Administration, the test launch was a process of continuous updating of the DPRK's ** system.
Recently, the United States has also sent three nuclear-powered aircraft carriers to assemble in the waters near the Korean Peninsula. According to the US Department of Defense, the US Navy's USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier recently entered the US Navy's Seventh Fleet operational area and appeared in the Pacific waters southeast of Japan, where it will join the USS Ronald Reagan, which docked at the port of Yokosuka, Japan, and the USS Carl Vinson, which is holding a trilateral naval exercise with the Japanese and ROK navies, to form a scene of three nuclear-powered aircraft carriers gathering in the Asia-Pacific region.
Some analysts believe that as South Korea's Yoon Suk-yeol pursues a hostile policy toward the DPRK and accelerates its tilt toward the United States, the DPRK's positioning toward the ROK has shifted from the past "homo-ethnic relations" to "hostile relations," and the military pace seems to have accelerated, and the DPRK and the ROK are likely to enter a vicious circle of "responding and responding" and "tough to tough." In addition, against the complex backdrop of the congressional elections to be held in South Korea in April this year and the first elections to be held in the United States in November, tensions on the peninsula are likely to continue. Robert Carlin, a former U.S. intelligence agency analyst, and Heck, a nuclear scientist who has visited North Korea several times, recently warned that the current situation on the Korean Peninsula is more dangerous than at any time since early June 1950.
*丨Xinhua News Agency, Korean Central News Agency.
Editor丨Su Ruixue, Shenzhen Satellite TV direct news editor.
Typesetting丨Su Ruixue, Shenzhen Satellite TV direct news editor.