![]() ![]() North Korea has argued it was forced to ramp up testing activities to deal with its rivals’ expanded military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal, but experts say the North ultimately aims to modernise its arsenal and increase its leverage in eventual diplomacy. The South and America’s militaries have been expanding their exercises in reaction to North Korea’s provocative run of missile tests since last year. The Ohio-class guided-missile submarine’s Tomahawk missiles have a range of about 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) and are capable of launching special forces missions, according to the South Korean statement. Michigan is one of the biggest submarines in the world. It said the US submarine arrived at the southeastern port city of Busan but didn’t say how long it would stay in South Korean waters. In a statement, they said with the deployment navies of the US and South Korea are to conduct drills on boosting their special operation capabilities and joint ability to cope with growing North Korean aggression. The USS Michigan’s arrival in South Korea, the first of its kind in six years, is part of a recent bilateral agreement on enhancing “regular visibility” of US strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula in response to North Korea’s advancing nuclear program, according to South Korean officials. It said the meeting will continue for at least another day. The KCNA didn’t specify what was discussed or mention any comments made by Kim. During Kim Jong-un’s first day of meetings on Friday, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said party officials reviewed the country’s economic campaigns for the first half of 2023, and discussed foreign policy and defence strategies to “cope with the changed international situation”. ![]()
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