According to official media, North Korea conducted a practice that simulated a “nuclear counterattack.”

According to official news agency KCNA, on Tuesday (April 23), North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un watched the nation’s first nuclear counterattack rehearsal, which replicated its “nuclear trigger” control system.

According to the South Korean military, North Korea launched a number of short-range ballistic missiles on Monday, April 22, in the direction of the sea off its east coast.

North Korea sent a message to its adversaries by attempting to replicate its “nuclear trigger” management system.

North Korea’s artillery forces participated in the nation’s first drills of this kind on Monday, April 22, to test the nation’s nuclear management system, also known as the “nuclear trigger.” The goal of the drills is to demonstrate North Korea’s diverse nuclear capabilities and to counter “provocative and invasive” military exercises by South Korea and the United States.

According to KCNA, the simulation exercises included moving soldiers in a nuclear counterattack posture and launching artillery using simulated nuclear bombs, should nuclear crisis alarms be issued.

Additionally, according to the official media, Kim voiced his delight with the exercises and lauded the preparedness of “the world’s best” tactical nuclear assault weapons.

Kim reportedly “guided a combined tactical drill simulating a nuclear counterattack involving super-large multiple rocket artillerymen,” according to the story.

It further said that the missiles “hit their island target” at a distance of around 352 kilometers (219 miles).

It is thought that after the successful launch of a surveillance satellite in orbit in November, North Korea has been preparing to launch another spy satellite.

North Korea claimed last week that it had tested a new anti-aircraft missile and a massive warhead with a strategic cruise missile.

South Korea refers to it as “blatant provocation,” while Japan warns
The missiles, according to South Korea’s military on Monday, April 22, traveled 300 kilometers from the Pyongyang region before exploding in the sea to the east of the Korean peninsula. It was said that the launch was a “blatant provocation.”

A government spokeswoman for Japan acknowledged the launch and said that one missile, which had a maximum height of 50 kilometers, had fallen outside of the nation’s exclusive economic zone.

This is Pyongyang’s second launch in less than a week; state media said that on Friday, April 19, the country tested a “super-large warhead” intended to assist in firing a strategic cruise missile.

The missile launch follows North Korea’s ally Russia’s use of its veto power in the UN Security Council in March to stop the UN from monitoring Pyongyang’s breach of sanctions related to its nuclear and weapons development.