North Korea calls for ‘war readiness’AP, SEOULPyongyang yesterday extended a provocative series of weapons tests by firing cruise missiles into the sea, as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for his military to step up war preparations and toured a shipyard. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said that the US and South Korean militaries were analyzing the North Korean launches into its western sea. South Korea’s military detected multiple missiles, but it did not immediately provide a specific number or an assessment of their flights, the joint chiefs said. A woman at a railway station in Seoul yesterday walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) did not specify when Kim visited Nampho.

Source: Taipei Times February 03, 2024 15:40 UTC