On Saturday, North Korea’s state newspaper stated that 800,000 residents volunteered to join or reenlist in the military to fight the US.
The Rodong Sinmun daily said that 800,000 students and workers nationwide wanted to join the military to fight the US on Friday.
“The soaring enthusiasm of young people to join the army is a demonstration of their unshakeable will to mercilessly wipe out the war maniacs making last-ditch efforts to eliminate our precious socialist country, and achieve the great cause of national reunification without fail and a clear manifestation of their ardent patriotism,” the North’s Rodong Sinmun said.
North Korea fired its Hwasong-17 ICBM on Thursday in retaliation to U.S.-South Korea military drills.
North Korea fired the Missile into the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan on Thursday, hours before South Korea’s president traveled to Tokyo for a meeting on countering the nuclear-armed North.
Seoul, Washington, and Tokyo condemned the North’s ballistic missile launch, which violated UN Security Council resolutions.
On Monday, South Korean and US soldiers launched “Freedom Shield 23,” 11 days of joint maneuvers on a scale not seen since 2017 to counter the North’s escalating threats.
Kim said the military drills heightened tensions.
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