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| South Koren Hyunmu-3C Cruse Missile (File Photo) |
SEOUL — Two days after North Korea’s nuclear test, South Korea signaled Thursday the deployment of a new cruise missile capable of a precision strike on members of Pyongyang’s high command.
The defense ministry called in reporters for a special video presentation of the recently deployed missile being fired from a warship and a submarine.
“The cruise missile unveiled today is a precision-guided weapon that can identify and strike the office window of the North’s command headquarters,” ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok told reporters. It has “deadly destructive power” that could “restrain the enemy headquarters’ activities” during wartime, Kim said.
South Korea’s military has been on a heightened state of alert since Pyongyang first threatened the nuclear test, which was eventually conducted on Tuesday. It was the North’s third test, following previous detonations in 2006 and 2009, and seismic data suggested it was significantly more powerful.
The test appears to have galvanized South Korea into flexing its military muscle and highlighting its own technological prowess.
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