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Demonstration of toughest response posture of DPRK's strategic forces

Date: 17/03/2023 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

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ICBM  Hwasongpho-17 launched

Under the grave situation in which the most unstable security environment is being created in the Korean peninsula due to the frantic, provocative and aggressive large-scale war drills conducted by the US and the south Korean puppet traitors against the DPRK, the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea saw to it that a launching drill of the ICBM Hwasongpho-17 was conducted on March 16.

The launching drill of the strategic weapon serves as an occasion more clearly showing the practical will of the Party and government of the DPRK to give a stronger warning to the enemies who are intentionally escalating the tension in the Korean peninsula while persistently resorting to irresponsible and reckless military threats in defiance of the DPRK's severe warning, give an understanding of the concern about armed conflict which has come to a threatening reality, and respond to them with overwhelming offensive measures anytime.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, guided the launching drill of an ICBM unit on the spot. Leading officials of the WPK Central Committee and commanding officers of the General Missile Bureau watched the launching drill in the presence of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The drill was aimed at confirming the mobile and normal operation and reliability of the DPRK's nuclear war deterrent.

The ICBM Hwasongpho-17, launched at Pyongyang International Airport, travelled up to a maximum altitude of 6 045km and flew a distance of 1 000.2 km for 4 151s before accurately landing on the preset area in the open waters of the East Sea of Korea.

The launching drill had no negative impact on the security of neighbouring countries.

The drill confirmed the war readiness of the ICBM unit and the exceptional militancy of the DPRK's strategic forces and strictly verified their reliability.

Expressing great satisfaction over the drill, Kim Jong Un said that the drill clearly proved once again the confidence in and guarantee of the operating systems of the country’s nuclear strategic forces undergoing rapid development.

Noting that our action orientation and line to cope with the long-term security environment of the state and the enemies' threat remain unchanged, he stressed the need to strike fear into the enemies, actually deter war and reliably guarantee the peaceful life of the Korean people and their struggle for socialist construction by irreversibly bolstering up the nuclear war deterrent.

Saying that we will continue to make the US and south Korea, which show open hostility towards the DPRK and frequently stage large-scale military drills in and around the Korean peninsula, find themselves being reckless, he mentioned our policy for counteraction against the enemies that is to make them realize themselves that their persistent and expanded anti-DPRK military moves will bring an irreversible, grave threat to them.

Reiterating the solemn declaration of the WPK and the DPRK government that they would react to nuclear weapons with nukes and frontal confrontation in kind, he called for strictly maintaining the rapid response posture of the strategic forces to cope with any armed conflict and war.

The nuclear strategic forces of the DPRK will make perfect preparations for carrying out their important mission anytime.

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