North Korea carried out another tactical nuclear attack exercise on Saturday in response to joint military drills conducted by South Korea and the United States, the country's state news agency KCNA said, APA reports citing Teletrader.
"A firing drill for simulated tactical nuclear attack was conducted at dawn of September 2 to warn the enemies of the actual nuclear war danger," KCNA reported. "Prior to the drill, there was an inspection of the procedures for authenticating the nuclear attack order and the rapid operation normality of the technical and mechanical devices of the launch approval system, and two long-range strategic cruise missiles tipped with mock nuclear warheads were fired in an actual war environment according to rapid approval procedures," it added.
Earlier in the day, South Korea said Pyongyang launched several cruise missiles into the sea but added it still needed to conduct an analysis of the launch.