{"id":2019064,"date":"2023-09-01T06:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T10:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-simulates-scorched-earth-nuclear-strikes-against-south\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T06:41:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T10:41:10","slug":"north-korea-simulates-scorched-earth-nuclear-strikes-against-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-simulates-scorched-earth-nuclear-strikes-against-south\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea simulates nuclear strikes on South Korea."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorth-korea-simulates-scorched-earth-nuclear-strikes-against-south%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2019064&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>North Korea Simulates Nuclear Strikes on South Korea<\/h2>\n<p>North Korea has recently conducted two missile tests, claiming that they were designed \u2064to simulate nuclear strikes on South \u2064Korea. According to North Korean state media, these missile launches were intended to simulate &#8220;scorched earth&#8221;\u2064 nuclear strikes and even rehearsed an \u200coccupation of South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200cregime&#8217;s military wing stated that two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russias-war-in-ukraine-means-more-u-s-forces-are-headed-to-europe\/\" title=\"Russia's War in Ukraine Means More U.S. Forces Are Headed to Europe\">tactical ballistic missiles<\/a> were\u200c fired from Pyongyang, targeting major command centers in South Korea in \u200bthe event of a war.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/russia-north-korea-holding-secret-negotiations-for-arms-deals-white-house-5483498\">Russia, North Korea Holding Secret Negotiations for Arms Deals: White House<\/a> (8\/30\/2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/north-korea-deploying-nuclear-weapons-to-navy-amid-us-japan-south-korea-joint-drills-5482882\">North Korea to Deploy Nuclear\u200c Weapons to Navy Amid US\u2013Japan\u2013South Korea Joint Drills<\/a> (8\/30\/2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The statement from North\u2064 Korea&#8217;s \u200dmilitary indicated that the missiles carried out simulated strikes through\u2062 air\u200d bursts, confirming the explosions of \u2064dummy warheads at a set altitude. The detonation \u200cof a nuclear warhead at high altitude could cause catastrophic damage through the initial blast and its electromagnetic\u2064 burst.<\/p>\n<p>South \u200dKorean and Japanese\u200c assessments suggest that the two\u2062 tactical missiles \u200btraveled approximately\u2062 250 miles at a maximum altitude \u200bof 30 miles before landing in the waters between Korea and \u200bJapan.<\/p>\n<h2>North\u2064 Korea Claims US Preparing Invasion<\/h2>\n<p>North Korea stated that these missile tests\u200c were a response to the \u200dUnited States&#8217; flyover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dod-more-troops-will-be-deployed-to-afghanistan-before-sept-11\/\" title=\"DOD: More troops will be deployed to Afghanistan before Sept. 11\">long-range bombers<\/a> over South Korea for a\u2064 joint\u2064 aerial training exercise. Pyongyang condemned the exercises as a &#8220;serious threat&#8221; and accused the United States of preparing an invasion. South Korea&#8217;s \u2063Joint Chiefs of Staff called the launches &#8220;a grave\u2063 provocation&#8221;\u200d that could destabilize the region and undermine international peace efforts.<\/p>\n<p>North \u200cKorean General Secretary Kim\u200d Jong Un\u2062 emphasized that these tests demonstrated the North&#8217;s ability \u200cto deal a heavy\u2062 blow to the \u200benemy&#8217;s war \u2062potential and command center. The Pentagon, on the other hand, urged restraint\u200d and called\u200b on North Korea to refrain from\u2064 provocative behavior.<\/p>\n<h2>US, South Korea Grow Closer<\/h2>\n<p>North \u200band South Korea have technically\u2064 been in a state of something resembling\u200b war since 1950. The resulting Korean War was never formally terminated with a peace \u200cagreement, but hostilities effectively ceased with the signing \u200cof an armistice in 1953. In recent years, the United States and South Korea have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-simulates-scorched-earth-nuclear-strikes-against-south\/\" title=\"North Korea simulates nuclear strikes on South Korea.\">drawn closer amid continued threats<\/a> of\u2064 nuclear annihilation\u2064 from\u2062 the North.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts\u200c are currently underway in\u200c Congress to replace the armistice with a\u200d peace deal, although they are contentious and \u200dunlikely to gain traction. The relationship between\u200b the United States and South \u200bKorea reached a high point\u2063 in April\u2064 when\u200b President Joe Biden received \u2062South\u200d Korean President Yoon Suk\u2064 Yeol in Washington. The two \u200bleaders signed the Washington Declaration, \u200cstrengthening the\u2064 United States&#8217; commitment\u200d to defending South Korea \u200bunder its \u2064nuclear umbrella \u2064in exchange for South Korea not pursuing the development of nuclear\u200d weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, \u200dthe United \u200cStates has sent\u2063 two nuclear submarines to South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea conducted two missile tests, simulating nuclear strikes on South Korea. The regime&#8217;s military wing fired two tactical ballistic missiles on Aug. 30, while state media claimed they also rehearsed an occupation of South Korea, referring to the launches as &#8220;scorched earth&#8221; nuclear strikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":2019065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2019065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}