North Korea Holds Joint Firepower Drill Testing Drones and Missiles — SkimNews
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- North Korea held a "joint firepower attack drill" on Saturday involving five army units, testing attack drones, tactical cruise missiles, tactical ballistic missiles, and large-caliber multiple rocket launchers, KCNA reported Monday.
- KCNA, citing an artillery director, said the drill would boost troop morale and improve capabilities to "completely collapse the enemy" whenever ordered.
- South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed on Saturday that North Korea fired several short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast.
- South Korea, Japan, and the United States responded by conducting a joint military exercise following the North Korean launches.
Why it matters: The drill tested a broad arsenal — drones alongside cruise and ballistic missiles — while a trilateral US-South Korea-Japan response signaled allied resolve within the same news cycle, a pattern that keeps military tensions elevated on the peninsula.
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