If North Korean artillerymen are manning these systems they are gaining so valuable military experience considering how important artillery fire will be during any contingency on the peninsula:
North Korea is estimated to have sent about 200 pieces of long-range artillery to Russia and is likely to send more troops and weapons in support of Moscow’s war against Ukraine, South Korea’s defense ministry said Tuesday.
The assessment came after South Korea’s spy agency earlier estimated the North to have sent some 11,000 troops to support Russia, of which 300 are believed to have been killed, with some 2,700 others wounded.
N.K. artillery positions open This photo, taken from South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island bordering North Korea in the Yellow Sea, shows the entrances of artillery positions being opened on North Korea’s coast in Hwanghae Province on Oct. 14, 2024, following a North Korean order for its artillery corps near the border to fully prepare to fire, citing the alleged flight of South Korean drones over Pyongyang. (Yonhap)
N.K. leader guides artillery firing drill This photo, provided by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency, shows a firing drill by the North Korean Army’s front-line combined artillery units “who have put the enemy’s capital in their striking range” on March 7, 2024, which North Korean leader Kim Jong-un guided. (Yonhap)
N. Korea test-fires new multiple rocket launcher shells This composite photo, released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on Feb. 12, 2024, shows the North’s Academy of Defence Science test-firing 240 millimeter-caliber “controllable” multiple rocket launcher shells the previous day. (Yonhap)
Just another example of how the Kim regime plans to increase tensions during the U.S. Presidential election year:
The gun ports of the coastal artillery (circled in red) on a North Korean island near the Northern Limit Line, a de facto maritime border, remain open, in this photo taken from South Korea’s front-line island of Yeonpyeong on Jan. 7, 2023. (Yonhap)
North Korea fired some 90 artillery shots into waters off its western coast Sunday, South Korea’s military said, the latest in a series of drills near the tensely guarded western border.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the artillery firings into the maritime buffer zone north of Northern Limit Line, the de-facto maritime border in the Yellow Sea, and South Korea’s border island of Yeonpyeong from about 4 p.m. to 5:10 p.m.
The buffer zone was set under a 2018 inter-Korean military accord designed to reduce tensions along the border.
There was no damage to the South Korean military or civilians from the latest firing, a JCS official said, adding that the South Korean military does not plan to hold drills in response.
Live-fire drills South Korea’s multiple launch rocket systems fire during a live-fire exercise at the Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, 46 kilometers northeast of Seoul, on June 7, 2023. (Yonhap)
Constantly threatened by North Korea with 'sea of fire,' South Korea has developed one of the world's most potent artillery systems and they are proving to be a boon for exports https://t.co/t8tINhTivYpic.twitter.com/OkhfDTYxEt
The North Koreans are still trying to get the ROK to cancel the Inter-Korean military agreement signed under the previous Moon administration with their provocations:
This photo, released in March 2020 by North Korea’s official Korean Central Television, shows the country’s artillery units firing shells. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)
North Korea fired some 130 artillery shells into eastern and western maritime “buffer zones” Monday, in what Seoul called a violation of a 2018 bilateral military agreement, amid the South Korea-U.S. live-fire drills in a border region.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said that it detected the artillery firings, thought to involve multiple rocket launchers, from Kumgang County in Kangwon Province and Jangsan Cape in South Hwanghae Province, from 2:59 p.m.
The shells splashed into the maritime buffer zones north of the Northern Limit Line (NLL), a de facto sea border, which were set under an inter-Korean military accord signed on Sept. 19, 2018, to reduce border tensions.
The JCS communicated warnings to the North multiple times, pointing out the violation of the military accord and calling for the immediate cessation of the provocation, the JCS said in a text message sent to reporters.
You can read more at the link, but if the ROK was to cancel the agreement the Kim regime could claim this as a “hostile act” as part of a justification for their long anticipated nuclear test.
Here is the latest provocation by North Korea as they likely try and build up tensions leading up towards their suspected nuclear test:
North Korea test-fired suspected artillery pieces into the sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for greater defense capability to cope with outside threats.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that it detected several flight trajectories believed to be North Korean artillery on Sunday morning. It said South Korea maintains a firm military readiness in close coordination with the United States amid boosted surveillance on North Korea.
North Korea’s missile launches may get the bigger headlines, but their robust artillery is the real danger to South Korea due to the 25 million people in the Seoul region living within artillery range.
