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North Korean leader watches air show, calls for readiness to fight enemies

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North Korea's Korea Central News Agency reported Saturday that leader Kim Jong-un had watched a military air show at Wonsan Kalma Airport. In this photo, Kim is talking with the pilots who participated in the event. Yonhap
North Korea's Korea Central News Agency reported Saturday that leader Kim Jong-un had watched a military air show at Wonsan Kalma Airport. In this photo, Kim is talking with the pilots who participated in the event. Yonhap

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended a military airshow and called on pilots to be ready to fight "enemies armed to the teeth," according to state media, Saturday.

The airshow at Wonsan Kalma Airport on the North's east coast was "held by way of letting all the aircraft equipped with maximum armament conduct bombing flight and firing flight under the command of the formation flight by the flight commanding officers," the Korean Central News Agency reported in English

After watching the display, Kim expressed "great satisfaction" with the flight commanding officers who "fully demonstrated the invincible might" of the leader's "flying corps."

Kim urged all pilots to be "fully ready for effectively applying" air tactics to operations and "battles," adding it was important for them "to possess high level of aviation, bombing skill and marksmanship by systematically conducting flight drills on a normal basis under the simulated conditions of an actual war in the severest condition."

"Our pilots have to try to fight the enemies armed to the teeth with great idea and tactics under any circumstances," Kim was quoted as saying.

The report did not provide any details of the aircraft that took part in the show, but satellite imagery released by 38 North, a U.S. website specializing in North Korea analysis, showed multiple military planes, including MiG-15s -17 and -29 fighters, and II-28 bombers, parked at the airport.

Kim's attendance at the event marked his first public military activity reported in more than two months since the North tested what it called a super-large multiple rocket launcher under his "guidance" in September.

North Korean media have been lashing out at South Korea and the U.S. over planned military exercise, urging Washington to abandon its "hostile policy" toward the North.

Pyongyang has long denounced the allies' joint military drills as a rehearsal for an invasion. The allies say the exercises are defensive in nature. (Yonhap)




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