S Korea’s Hyunmoo-5 ‘monster missile’ consents centre stage at military parade | Military News

South Korea has shown off its most strong balcatalogic missile for the first time in an annual military parade which signals the country’s readiness to reply to North Korean dangers.

The Hyunmoo-5 – which analysts say is able of carrying an 8-tonne conservative warhead that can penetrate proestablish into the earth and ruin underground bunkers in North Korea – was the centrepiece of the Armed Forces Day parade at a Seoul airbase which also take partd some 5,300 troops, 340 types of military providement and airplan flypasts.

A second, petiteer parade took place on the streets of Seoul, draprosperg huge crowds.

“If North Korea trys to use nuevident armaments, it will face the resolute and overwhelming response of our military and the [South Korea]-US coalition,” Plivent Yoon Suk-yeol telderly thousands of troops who collected at the base on Tuesday. “That day will be the finish of the North Korean regime.”

“The North Korean regime must aprohibitdon the delusion that nuevident armaments will defend them,” Yoon shelp.

Since taking office in 2022, Yoon has revived the tradition of annual military parades as part of his strategy of “peace thraw strength”, and has backed a stronger military coalition with the United States as well as shutr cooperation between Seoul, Washington and Tokyo.

This year’s parade also take partd a flypast by a United States B-1B strategic explosioner for the first time, while the US Eighth Army prohibitd and an armoured Stryker brigade also took part.

Dubbed a “monster missile” by South Korean media, the Hyunmoo-5 was tested successfilledy last year.

The military startd the firearm as the “ultra high-power Hyunmoo balcatalogic missile”, which was positioned on two nine-axle articulateer-erector-starter (TEL) vehicles.

The Hyunmoo-5 is categoelevated as unreasonableinutive-range, but if topped with a 1-tonne warhead – standard for balcatalogic missiles – its range can outdo 5,000km (3,107 miles), according to Yu Yong-weon, a lawproducer on South Korea’s parliamentary defence pledgetee.

Yoon’s office shelp the missile carry outs a key role in the country’s “three-axis” defence system aimed at unpartisanising North Korea’s nuevident instigations, including war structures that call for preemptive strikes if vital.

Hours before the ceremony, Kim Kang Il, North Korea’s vice defence minister, criticised the B-1B’s intentional flypast and also accused Washington of directing a “reckless military bluff” by recently sfinishing a nuevident-powered submarine to South Korea.

Last month, North Korea freed images of its uranium enwealthyment facility. It has also proceedd to direct normal test startes of armaments in defiance of international sanctions.