North Korea puts on show of force as US submarine docks in the South
Seoul — North Korea put on a massive live-fire drill on Tuesday to mark the foundation of its military, media reports said, as a US submarine docked in South Korea in a show of force amid growing concern over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programmes. The port call by the USS Michigan came as a US aircraft carrier strike group steams for Korean waters and as the top nuclear envoys from South Korea, Japan, and the US met in Tokyo to discuss the North’s refusal to give up its nuclear programme. Fear has risen in recent weeks that North Korea could soon conduct another nuclear test or long-range missile launch in defiance of UN sanctions. South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported that the North appeared to have deployed a large number of long-range artillery units in the region of Wonsan on its east coast on Tuesday, conducting a large-scale, live-fire drill. The report, citing an unidentified government source, said the live-fire exercise was possibly supervised by North Korean leade...
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