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'Open test' with North Korean missiles to change the kill chain between South Korea and the US

김종찬안보 2022. 1. 13. 15:21
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Direct negotiations between the US and North Korea are expected to accelerate as the kill-chain wave is limited to domestic use as the North Korean missile system and changes in the ROK-US joint operational plan coincide.
According to the 'Five-Year Plan' schedule unveiled at the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party in January last year, North Korea announced the first test launch of a hypersonic missile on September 28 last year and the second test launch on January 5 this year, followed by the launch on the 11th by Chairman Kim Jong Un. It was conducted by moving to the local area by a dedicated train to observe it and disclosed it in advance to US strategic assets.
CNN reported on the 12th that after the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) issued a warning about a North Korean missile launch, it was unusual for some pilots to be ordered to temporarily suspend operations. seems to have ordered the suspension of the operation,” he said, announcing the temporary suspension in the western region.
The Office of Overseas Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury said on the 12th that “Six North Korean nationals, one Russian, and one Russian group involved in the development of North Korean weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and ballistic missiles were subject to sanctions.” A large number of workers from the North Korean Academy of Defense Science were included, and one Russian and an organization were involved in North Korea's activities and transactions related to the development of WMD or transportation means.
At the New Year's press conference on the 11th, presidential candidate Yoon Seok-yeol, in response to a question from a foreign reporter, 'If North Korea has fired a missile and the threat continues, do you have any plans to prevent it?' “There is no way to stop it now,” he brought up the kill chain, and candidate Lee Jae-myung said, “Kill chain refers to a military strategy that strikes a target when a weapon of mass destruction or a nuclear attack is obvious and imminent.” “Weapon test or projectile It is not something that can be mentioned in such a situation as a test.”
'Kill Chain' is a joint South Korea-U.S. joint training system that actively tracks North Korea's weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles and preemptively strikes and defends them when there is a sign of provocation. It is a plan to respond to the situation, and the kill chain is subject to change as the Biden administration agreed to establish a new plan at the Defense Ministers' Meeting on December 2, last year.
The kill chain is a strategy for countering North Korean weapons of mass destruction and surprise attacks, such as preemptive strikes on North Korean nuclear and missile bases in case of emergency under Plan 5015 of the US asymmetric strategic mobilization, detecting, disrupting, destroying, and defending North Korean ballistic missile threats It was conducted in March 2016 in the Key Resolve and Eagle Korea-U.S. joint exercises as a 4D operation and an emergency infiltration operation.
President Moon Jae-in formalized the asymmetric strategy mobilization of preemptive strikes and strategic weapons, stating that “the three axes must have an asymmetric response force,” in his first report on the Ministry of National Defense in August 2017.
The kill chain of Operation 5015 is the “three-axis system” stage, a preemptive strike to detect signs of North Korea’s nuclear and missile launch, the second axis is the establishment of a “Korean-style missile defense system,” and the third axis is “mass punitive and retaliation.”
In the 2019 Defense White Paper, the Moon Jae-in government changed the term to “nuclear and weapons of mass destruction response system.”
On November 30, last year, Voice of America (VOA) reported that "the United States and South Korea will begin to formulate a new operational plan that takes into account North Korea's advanced nuclear and missile capabilities," said Pentagon officials on a plane dedicated to the U.S. Secretary of Defense for South Korea. reported the day.
In March 2016, the ROK-U.S. joint exercise was conducted with 15,000 U.S. forces and 300,000 participation by the U.S. military, and asymmetric forces of the U.S. military, such as the U.S. aircraft carrier John Stennis, a nuclear submarine, the latest stealth Aegis destroyer, and the Marine Corps’ latest underwater take-off and landing transport aircraft, the MV-22 Osprey. was put in in large quantities.
The Blue House National Security Council (NSC) avoided the “signs of provocation” clause in Plan 5015 as “strongly regretful” to the North Korean missile launch on the 11th following the 5th.
In response to a question at the National Assembly on the 5th that North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile is difficult to define as a provocation, Defense Minister Seo Wook said, "The term "provocation" is defined in the Unified Defense Act to mean harming the Korean people, territory, territorial waters, and airspace." said.
At the National Assembly on October 21, last year, Minister Seo said, "It appears to be a threat from North Korea. Since provocations cause damage to our airspace, territory, territorial waters, and the people, we use the term separately,” he said.
In response to the SLBM launch on the 19th, the Blue House NSC said, “It is deeply regrettable that North Korea’s missile launch this time was carried out at a time when the government is actively consulting with major countries such as the US, China, Japan, and Russia to advance the peace process on the Korean Peninsula.” sorry,' he said.
Regarding this series of North Korean missiles, US State Department spokeswoman Ned Price said at a regular briefing on the 11th that "the United States has several tools in its arsenal.", and "We have been working closely with our partners in the Indo-Pacific and beyond, and we are also working with the United Nations," he said.
A spokesperson for the North Korean Foreign Ministry said on the 14th, "The US questioning our legitimate exercise of self-defense is an obvious provocation and robbery logic." I can't help but react."

The kill chain is similar to the pre-nuclear attack strategy, which was secretly prepared by the Republican Reagan regime in 1983 to promote the Soviet nuclear attack response strategy.
Defense Minister Seo's response to the National Assembly excluded US bases in Japan from North Korean missiles.