North Korean chief Kim Jong Un guided an artillery firing drill by the Korean People’s Army, the nation’s navy drive, on Thursday, state media KCNA reported on Friday. The drill concerned items which are in firing vary of “the enemy’s capital,” the state media stated, referring to Seoul, the South Korean capital and added it “fulfilled important military missions for war deterrence.”

Thursday’s artillery drill was geared toward growing fight readiness posture and precise struggle functionality, KCNA stated. Kim urged to push ahead with preparations so the artillery sub-units might “take the initiative with merciless and rapid strikes at the moment of their entry into an actual war.” “He stressed the need to train all the artillerymen of the whole army into experts in artillery engagement … and set forth important tasks for rounding off the artillery war preparations,” the report stated, referring to the chief of the reclusive state.

The transfer comes because the South Korean and U.S. militaries kicked off their spring drills often called the Freedom Shield workouts on Monday with twice the variety of troops becoming a member of in comparison with final yr.

Seoul’s defence minister, Shin Won-sik, visited the Capital Defense Command on Thursday and ordered a agency response if North Korea made provocations aimed on the capital. Earlier this week, the North Korean state media stated Kim inspected subject coaching of troops at a significant navy operations base within the western area of the nation.