According to the information provided, the test of the latest strategy was supervised personally by the country leader Kim Jong Un. However, it was not specified precisely erstwhile the tests were carried out.
Kim stated that the event showed that the North Korean army would be “equipped with another defensive weapon system of commendable combat capabilities."
North Korea investigating anti-aircraft missiles
A test announcement came just a day after South Korea began the main yearly military exercises involving the USA. Pyongczang responded to them, calling them “a test before aggression”.
North Korea has been treating Seoul's military cooperation with Washington for years as an act of hostility.
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Last week Seoul stated that Pyongchang launched “many unidentified ballistic missiles”, may be directed at American soldiers stationed in South Korea.
At the end of February, North Korea carried out a test of strategical maneuvering missiles in the Yellow Sea, which, as was stated later, demonstrated “the ability to carry out counterattacks”.
Pyongchang can send fresh weapons to conflict in Ukraine
Ahn Chan-il, who heads the planet Institute for North Korea Studies, told AFP that the last North Korean tests seem to be “a weapon test to be utilized in Ukraine‘.
He besides added that Pjongczang uses joint exercises of Seoul and Washington as a pretext for developing and exporting specified weapons to Moscow.
South Korean and Western intelligence agencies claim that more than 10,000 troops from the north were sent to the Russian Kursk Oblast last year to aid repel the Ukrainian offensive. In February, an interview from Seoul stated that Kim's troops had hit the front.
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As AFP Hong Min said, the elder analyst at the Korean National Unity Institute, the repeated weapons investigating by North Korea are aimed at "showing the improvement of weapons of strategical importance‘.
– If North Korea improves its capabilities in the field of air defence and rocket interception through technological cooperation with Russia, this could importantly affect South Korea's defence plan," he said.
In his opinion, Pjongczang may in peculiar to receive support from Russia for delicate radar systems and combat vehicles.
Sergei Szojgu met with Kim Jong Un
Traditional allies – Pjongczang and Moscow – got even closer after the start a full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Since last year, Kim Jong Un's government has besides been accused of sending thousands of its troops to the Kurdish circuit and supporting the Kremlin with arms supplies.
Both Russia and North Korea have never officially confirmed military cooperation in the framework of the war in Ukraine, but the fact is that in 2024 both countries, at the time of Vladimir Putin's visit to Pjongczang, signed a broad agreement containing a common defence clause.
According to TASS, on Friday in North Korea there was a erstwhile Russian defence minister Sergei Szojgu who was handed over to Kim Jong Un "hellos and best wishes" from the Russian dictator.
During the gathering of the Shoigu itself, he besides spoke of last year's strategical Partnership Treaty, saying that "it full suits the interests of both countries".
