> People’s Army JCoS: To Strike When UAV Detected, Ready for Expansion Into Armed Conflict
Korea Central News Agency(KCNA) reported on the 13th that North Korea has ordered its troops near the border to get into a standby position for total fire, stating that military tension is escalating due to the infiltration of Pyongyang by drones from the South.
According to the news agency, the Korean People’s Army(KPA) Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCoS) on the 12th relayed pre-operation orders that included these statements to unified artillery troops and troops with core firearms assignments stationed near the border.
Those pre-operation orders ordered that ‘8 artillery brigades completely armed in wartime formation switch to fire standby position by 1320 hours, and complete various operation support duties’.
JCoS also ordered that troops and camps be tightly prepared for measures with various scenarios in mind, including one where a South’s drone may be shot down when another such border infiltration takes place, and one where such a strike may lead to armed conflict.
The agency reported that the JCoS ordered all troops to strengthen their watch duties, and that antiair watch posts have been reinforced in Pyongyang, where the South’s drones have been reported to have infiltrated.
KCNA explained that these measures have been enforced because ‘The Republic of Korea’s challenging actions of severe sovereignty invasions on Pyongyang, capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have set a heavy and unpredictable state of military tensions’.
While the North had claimed that South Korea’s drones had infiltrated Pyongyang on the 3rd, 9th and 10th and dropped Anti-North Korean leaflets, SK’s military took an ambiguous stance by stating that they ‘cannot confirm nor deny the facts’.
Secretary Kim Yo-Jong of the Korean Labor Party[and central committee?] threatened that a ‘terrible calamity’ will occur should SK’s drones appear at Pyongyang again, which the Ministry of National Defense responded to by saying that ‘such a day would be the end for the North Korean regime’.
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> People’s Army JCoS: To Strike When UAV Detected, Ready for Expansion Into Armed Conflict
Korea Central News Agency(KCNA) reported on the 13th that North Korea has ordered its troops near the border to get into a standby position for total fire, stating that military tension is escalating due to the infiltration of Pyongyang by drones from the South.
According to the news agency, the Korean People’s Army(KPA) Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCoS) on the 12th relayed pre-operation orders that included these statements to unified artillery troops and troops with core firearms assignments stationed near the border.
Those pre-operation orders ordered that ‘8 artillery brigades completely armed in wartime formation switch to fire standby position by 1320 hours, and complete various operation support duties’.
JCoS also ordered that troops and camps be tightly prepared for measures with various scenarios in mind, including one where a South’s drone may be shot down when another such border infiltration takes place, and one where such a strike may lead to armed conflict.
The agency reported that the JCoS ordered all troops to strengthen their watch duties, and that antiair watch posts have been reinforced in Pyongyang, where the South’s drones have been reported to have infiltrated.
KCNA explained that these measures have been enforced because ‘The Republic of Korea’s challenging actions of severe sovereignty invasions on Pyongyang, capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have set a heavy and unpredictable state of military tensions’.
While the North had claimed that South Korea’s drones had infiltrated Pyongyang on the 3rd, 9th and 10th and dropped Anti-North Korean leaflets, SK’s military took an ambiguous stance by stating that they ‘cannot confirm nor deny the facts’.
Secretary Kim Yo-Jong of the Korean Labor Party[and central committee?] threatened that a ‘terrible calamity’ will occur should SK’s drones appear at Pyongyang again, which the Ministry of National Defense responded to by saying that ‘such a day would be the end for the North Korean regime’.