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| President Moon Jae-in poses during a ceremony to award swords to 75 newly-appointed brigadier generals, March 31. Yonhap |
President Moon Jae-in called for the military to maintain a watertight defense posture Thursday amid tensions in the wake of North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch last week.
Moon made the remarks during a ceremony to award swords to 75 newly-appointed brigadier generals, saying tensions are escalating after North Korea’s ICBM launch and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Moon urged the new brigadier generals to maintain a military preparedness that “eliminates any gaps” in the country’s defense posture, Cheong Wa Dae said in a statement.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula heightened after North Korea successfully test-fired a massive ICBM, March 24, its first such test-launch since 2017.
The launch ended the North’s self-imposed moratorium on nuclear weapons and ICBM tests, with intelligence authorities expecting Pyongyang to raise tensions further by launching another ICBM or even conducting a nuclear weapons test. (Yonhap)
Moon calls for watertight defense posture
Source: Updates News Philippines
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