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North Korea continued its unprecedented pace of missile launches Thursday, sending six more missiles into the sea. But as the Kim regime continued to lash out at the United States and South Korea for conducting joint military exercises, the two allies' agreed to extend the drills beyond Friday, when they were due to conclude.
VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb has more.
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HEADLINE: South Korea: Any Use of Nukes Will ‘End’ Kim Jong Un Regime
TEASER: US, South Korea extend military exercises amid unprecedented pace of missile launches from North Korea
PUBLISHED: 11/03/2022 at 8:22 p.m.
BYLINE: Carla Babb
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DATELINE: Pentagon
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[[North Korea continued its unprecedented pace of missile launches Thursday, sending six more missiles into the sea. But as the Kim regime continued to lash out at the United States and South Korea for conducting joint military exercises, the two allies' agreed to extend the drills beyond Friday, when they were due to conclude. VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb has more.]]
((NARRATOR))
North Korea firing an intercontinental ballistic missile, a weapon designed to carry a nuclear warhead as far as North America.
The test launch, along with five other missile launches Thursday,
came hours before Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hosted his South Korean counterpart at the Pentagon, prompting this strong warning.
((Lee Jong-sup, South Korean Defense Minister)) ((in Korean))
“Secretary Austin and I affirmed that any nuclear attack by the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea], including the use of tactical nuclear weapons, is unacceptable and will result in the end of the Kim Jong Un regime by the overwhelming and decisive response of the alliance.”
((NARRATOR))
((Courtesy: South Korea Ministry of National Defense))
The two defense leaders announced their decision to extend their large joint military drill on the peninsula beyond its Friday end date, a move North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called a “terrible mistake.”
((David Maxwell, Foundation for Defense of Democracies)) ((Teams, no credit needed))
“What they're in effect doing is showing Kim Jong Un that his strategy is failing. However, ironically, his failed strategy is also what is making him more desperate.”
((NARRATOR))
South Korean and U.S. officials have for months warned that North Korea is in the final stages of preparations for what would be its seventh nuclear test since 2006, and its first since 2017.
Critics of U.S. policy have said the North’s nuclear provocations, coupled with the recent missile launches, could be signs that U.S. and South Korean military muscle might not stop Pyongyang from trying to attack Seoul.
Secretary Austin disagrees.
((Lloyd Austin, US Secretary of Defense))
“I believe that they are deterred from attacking North Korea — South Korea, excuse me — and I also believe they are deterred from employing a nuclear device.”
((NARRATOR))
But that reassurance may not ease concerns in certain areas of Japan and South Korea, where air raid sirens warned citizens to take cover from potential incoming missiles.
((CARLA BABB VOA NEWS THE PENTAGON))
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