Kim Jong Un orders simulated nuclear attack on US and South Korea.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw drills simulating a nuclear counterattack against the US and South Korea, involving a short-range missile launch from a buried silo, which analysts say would help improve speed and stability in future tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles. The exercises were designed to strengthen the country’s “war deterrence and nuclear counterattack capability,” accusing Washington and Seoul of making an “explicit attempt to unleash a war” against it. South Korea and Japan reported a launch of a North Korean short-range ballistic missile off the east coast on Sunday, the latest in a series of missile tests in recent weeks.