<W commentary> North Korea ridiculing South Korean SLBMs = South Korea's instability is not caused by "lack of weapons"

South Korea's presidential office "Blue House" announced on the 15th of this month that it has succeeded in launching a Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM). In South Korea, it was reported that "it became the seventh country in the world to succeed in launch experiments, following the United States and Russia."

The countries that succeeded in SLBM development were reported to be the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France, and India, and many responded that "Korea succeeded in what Japan had not yet done."

The launch test was conducted at the "Agency for Defense Development (ADD)" test site in central Korea. It is said that it succeeded in hitting the target point after launching the SLBM mounted on the domestic submarine underwater and flying as planned. Yonhap News Agency said that SLBM was "a weapon of high strategic value because it can be operated secretly on a submarine."

The South Korean presidential office said, "The possession of SLBM has great significance in terms of securing deterrence against threats in all directions, and is expected to play a major role in self-defense and peace consolidation on the Korean Peninsula." Emphasized the significance of.

Immediately before this experiment, North Korea was experimenting with cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Perhaps he was concerned about this, President Moon Jae-in, who witnessed the launch experiment, said, "Today's missile force launch experiment is not in response to North Korea's provocation, but our own. It took place on the day scheduled by the missile force enhancement program."

"We have proved that we have enough deterrence to respond to the North's provocation at any time," he said with confidence.

Immediately responding to President Moon's statement was North Korean General Secretary Kim Jong Eun's sister Kim Yo-jong, the deputy director of the Workers' Party of Korea. Mr. Yo-jung announced a discourse through the Korean Central News Agency on the 15th when the South Korean presidential office announced the success of the launch test.

He accused President Moon of using the expression "provocation of the north" as "extremely stupid as the president of a country." "If you come out to the president and help to defame the other party, you will have to take countermeasures, and if that happens, the North-South relations will be completely destroyed," he warned.

South Korean media reports that South Korea is the "seventh" country that has succeeded in launching SLBM submarines, but there are actually "unofficial seventh" countries.

In August 2016, North Korea succeeded in launching its own SLBM "Puksong-1" underwater. In October 2019, we are conducting a test shot of the improved "Pole Star-3".

The South Korean Ministry of National Defense (the department is equivalent to a ministry) has not counted as a successful example because it has not been confirmed whether the SLBM launched by North Korea is capable of launching from an underwater submarine.

Under these circumstances, North Korea responded with a mockery of South Korea. On the 20th, North Korea's senior weapons development official, the director of the Academy of National Defense Science, Chang Chang-ha, released a document entitled "Immature Underwater Ballistic Missiles of South Korea (South Korea)" through the Korean Central News Agency.

The document pointed out the delay in technology, saying that "the core underwater launch experiment is incomplete", "if it is SLBM, it is only a rudimentary stage", "in terms of practicality, many military Experts will see it with skepticism. "

"It can't be a phenomenal means" he said, "We are paying close attention to South Korea's obsession with SLBM development".

North Korea responded to South Korea's SLBM submarine launch experiment with both restraint and vigilance. Future trends will be watched.

During the period of peninsula rule from 1910, the industrial infrastructure that Japan installed on the peninsula was concentrated in North Korea. On an independent peninsula at the end of the 1945 war, North Korea was able to provoke in the 1950 Korean War because of the help of the Soviet Union and North Korea's better economic infrastructure than South Korea.

After the Korean War, South Korea has come to the point of overwhelming North Korea with its economic power, with the devoted help of the United States and Japan and the blessing of the liberal democracy and capitalist system. However, South Korea's current instability does not come from lack of weapons and strength.

South Korea's "romantic nationalists" or "subordinate forces disguised as nationalism" often say to North Korea's nuclear development that "South Korea is not the target, and if North and South Korea are unified, it will become South Korea's force."

The cause of South Korea's instability, which hinders the prosperity of Northeast Asia, is "lack of thinking" rather than "lack of weapons." "Anachronism" that shouts "hurray for independence" against imperialism that disappeared 76 years ago. Thinking paralyzed by anti-Japanese and anti-American incitement has no choice but to wait for recovery from understanding modern history correctly.