The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on January 4 that South Korea opened the new year with acts of "self-destruction".
K1A2 tanks fire artillery shells during a joint US-South Korea exercise in Pocheon on January 2.
The KCNA article said that "the risk of conflict will be at its highest this year," as "invading forces" such as the United States and Japan will enter the peninsula at South Korea's "call and active cooperation," and the three countries "may take unprecedented provocative war steps such as nuclear strikes,"
The news agency said that "warmongers" in South Korea will face "unimaginably painful moments" if they continue to take provocative actions against North Korea.
Since early 2024, the South Korean army has conducted artillery and live-fire drills while the navy has conducted exercises with warships and aircraft to strengthen defenses against potential provocations from North Korea.
The South Korean military announced on January 4 that its and the US forces also conducted live-fire drills near the border with North Korea. The drills took place in the city of Pocheon, 46 km northeast of Seoul, and lasted from December 29, 2023 to January 5.
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According to Yonhap, 110 weapons systems from both sides participated in the exercise, including K1A2 tanks, A-10 fighter jets, Stryker armored vehicles...
At a meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea in late 2023, leader Kim Jong-un called inter-Korean relations a relationship between two hostile countries and ordered preparations for a major event to overwhelm the entire South Korean territory in a contingency situation.
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