North Korea Conducted Large-Scale Military Exercises Simulating an Attack on South Korea

• 12.02.2016, 16:49
•  Asia,  World

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North Korea has carried out a large-scale artillery drill simulating an attack on South Korea, Press TV reports.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Thursday guided the military exercise, which involved multiple batteries of frontline heavy artillery units and targeted five border islands as well as mock "reactionary ruling organs" in Seoul and other cities.

"If a war breaks out, such a deadly strike should be inflicted upon the South Korean forces to completely break their will of counteraction at the start and make a clean sweep of them,” KCNA quoted Kim Jong-un as saying during the artillery drill. "Nobody and nothing would survive," he said.

The exercise came just hours after the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a new resolution imposing tough new sanctions on North Korea following its fifth nuclear test in September.