April 24, 2024
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N.Korea pledges to regularly conduct ballistic missile launch drills

Editorial comes as South Korea says nuclear test could happen "at any time"

North Korea will continue to conduct ballistic missile launch exercises in response to ongoing U.S. – South Korean joint military drills, Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), reported on Friday.

The article defended the legitimacy of early March's ballistic rocket-launch drill, arguing that no one has the "right to denounce” the drill as it is “normal training” responding to the “nuclear war moves of the enemies including the U.S."

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