Military vows to respond to any NK provocation
2024-09-22 01:35:46 [行业动态] 来源:Anhui News
“We will forcefully respond to any attack from North Korea, without hesitation. We will keep under control the escalating tensions between the two Koreas,” Jeong said Thursday at an event to thank Korean War veterans.
Hours earlier the military said it had yet to detect signs of imminent North Korean military provocations. Pyongyang threatened to retaliate against Seoul over anti-North propaganda leaflets sent by defector groups. Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it was closely monitoring the situation.
“No activity pointing to the North’s imminent action has been detected,” Kim Joon-rak, head of public affairs there, told reporters.
Authorities are going over every way in which Pyongyang could stage a provocation, but won’t share their observations in detail, he said. “Addressing the North’s moves every time they come out would seriously compromise our security protocols.”
Speculation over an imminent missile test by Pyongyang surfaced on reports that the North’s leader Kim Jong-un may have flown to the eastern coast to observe a launch.
Kim’s aircraft was spotted flying northeastward on Wednesday morning, and its signals disappeared near North Hamgyong Province, aviation tracker Aircraft Spot said Wednesday.
North Korean watchers say Kim was heading to Sinpo, the east coastal city where Pyongyang is believed to have been building a new nuclear-tipped submarine.
The JCS neither confirmed nor denied whether Kim was aboard, saying it was standing on alert for any aggression from the North, which a day ago warned of deploying troops to the Demilitarized Zone and to the joint factory complex and Kumgangsan resort facilities, all of which are near the border.
Local experts downplayed speculation over a submarine-launched ballistic missile from the North.
“Pyongyang would rather stage provocations, along the inter-Korean border or near the disputed maritime border in the West Sea, to continue pounding Seoul. An SLBM more aggravates Washington, which is totally uninvited at the moment,” said Choi Kang, vice president of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul.
Cheong Seong-chang, director of the Center for North Korean Studies at the Sejong Institute, said, “We know so little about Pyongyang’s SLBM to be betting on an incoming launch.” The North would likely go for a test run sometime this year, though, he added.
But some experts dismissed the idea Kim was even on the aircraft, for two reasons.
“Would Kim really let us track where he was off to? The flight model, which the reports cite as AN-148, also doesn’t match that of Kim’s plane, which should read IL-62M,” said Shin Jong-woo, a senior analyst at the Korea Defense and Security Forum.
Senior officials might have been aboard to prepare for unveiling a nuclear-tipped submarine in Sinpo that houses military equipment involving ballistic missiles. Test-firing an SLBM would be a later move, logically, but Pyongyang could catch us all off guard, Shin added.
By Choi Si-young (siyoungchoi@heraldcorp.com)
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