North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has set new key goals to strengthen defense capabilities for the coming year, he said in a report released Tuesday at the second plenary session of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK).
The report presented by the North Korean leader analyzes «deeply the new challenging situation created on the Korean Peninsula and the international political situation,» according to the North Korean news agency KCNA.
In addition, the document sets out new defense objectives to push forward by 2023 against the backdrop of a «multilaterally changing situation.»
SOUTH KOREA RECORDS NORTH KOREAN DRONES In this context, last Monday, at least five North Korean drones penetrated South Korean airspace. This type of event is the first recorded since June 2017, with the incursion of another drone in Gangwon province.
Likewise, between 2014 and 2017, Seoul denounced numerous drone overflight operations by North Korea and warned of the military threat posed by these devices.
As a result, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has vowed to reinforce the Army’s surveillance and reconnaissance operations following the North Korean infiltrations on Monday, which provoked Seoul’s response and raised tensions on the Korean peninsula once again.
«I think people clearly saw the danger of a North Korean policy that relied on good intentions and military agreements with North Korea,» he said, before revealing that South Korean authorities «had been planning to establish a drone unit to conduct surveillance and reconnaissance operations over key North Korean military facilities and, in view of yesterday’s incident, we will speed it up as much as possible,» as reported by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
