SEOUL, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- North Korea conducted artillery firing drills to boost combat readiness, state-run media reported Tuesday, as the United States and South Korea prepare to kick off a large-scale joint military exercise.
A firing practice contest of tactical artillery sub-units was held on Monday under a "combat drill plan of the [Korean People's Army] General Staff for perfecting the capability to fight a war and battle readiness of the entire army," the official Korean Central News Agency reported.
The KCNA report said the participants hit and destroyed targets "in the course of mastering rapid mobile and surprise operations and ... steadily increasing the efficiency and operation of the artillery weapon systems."
The drills "served as an occasion to demonstrate the strong will of the army to thoroughly contain military gangsters in the land adjacent to the border," KCNA said.
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