North Korea Nuclear Test Hint Fifth, South Korea Massive Maneuver

Documentation massive artillery maneuvers published KCNA. | (Reuters / KCNA)

SEOUL - South Korea (ROK) held a massive military maneuvers, in which about 300 artillery K-55 and K-9 launched simultaneously shot near the border. South Korean maneuvers was held a day after North Korea (Korea) hinted to test a nuclear weapon for the fifth time.
Hundreds of South Korean artillery fire drill on Thursday led to a roar that shook the border of the two Koreas. Hundreds of artillery shots were directed at sekutar the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).

"About 300 artillery battalion artillery of 49 are planning to take part in target practice," reads the statement of the Ministry of National Defense (MND) South Korea ahead of a grand maneuver. "The exercise will kick off at 05:04
and will involve artillery K-9 and K-55."

Large-scale military exercises South Korean lasted exactly one year after the two Koreas are involved shootout in August last year, following a landmine explosion in the DMZ that wounded two South Korean soldiers. This exercise is also done to check the combat readiness of troops Seoul to anticipate new provocation from Pyongyang.

South Korean maneuvers kalini akbar not get a reaction from the North. However, the day before the regime led by Kim Jong-un insists that Pyongyang formally restarting plutonium production program at the Yongbyon nuclear complex and signaled to test a nuclear weapon for the fifth time.

"We have to reprocess nuclear fuel rods were removed from the graphite-moderated reactors," said Atomic Energy Institute (AEI) which holds jurisdiction over the DPRK's nuclear facilities North Korea, said in a written statement to Kyodo News, which cited Friday (19/8 /
2016).

The announcement comes after the United States and its allies, South Korea, seeking to fortify their position with plans to spread the THAAD missile defense system in South Korea. The US move has been strongly criticized by Russia and China as a potential threat to their national security.

The North itself has hinted tested a nuclear weapon for the fifth time with a pretext to expel any threat to US and South Korea to defend the sovereignty of Pyongyang. "In the event that the United States continues to threaten us with nuclear weapons, we will not stop the test (nuclear weapons)," continued the statement AEI DPRK.