South Korea and the U.S. are training to strike North Korean ICBMs...President Yoon said, "Report after taking first steps."

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The government designates new items to be monitored in the field of solid-propelled missiles.

[Anchor]
As North Korea raised the level of provocations by firing ICBMs, the government strengthened its security readiness.

South Korea and the U.S. will conduct joint drills to strike North Korea's ICBM launchers and expand import controls on components needed to manufacture missiles.

Reporter Cho Yong-sung reports.

[Reporter]
The F-15 fighter jet, which has completed the guided bomb, leaves the runway and heads for the air.

The pilot, who succeeded in tracking the mobile launcher in the air, succeeds in precision strike after aiming.

"3, 2, 1, Impact, Splash!"

It is a drill to shoot down North Korea's long-range ballistic missiles, or 'ICBM' launchers.

The South Korean and U.S. air forces also conducted precision bombing drills with large-scale fighters.

In particular, right after North Korea's ICBM provocation, the defense ministers of South Korea and the U.S. decided to demonstrate the alliance's willingness to respond in various ways, including joint drills, under the deployment of strategic assets from the U.S. side.

The emergency NSC Standing Committee decided to designate new independent sanctions against North Korea, and President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered the international community to be thoroughly prepared to prevent any surprise provocation.

A high-ranking government official said that President Yoon emphasized the message to always remember "the river, the end," saying that if North Korea's provocation occurs, it can be reliably responded and handled on the spot before reporting.

It is interpreted as emphasizing the need for an immediate response in line with the rising level of North Korea's provocations.

[Yoon Suk Yeol / President: North Korea has launched an ICBM. Behind the scenes, they secretly send mercenaries to Russia, and from now on, they are aiming directly at our security. The government will take the necessary measures seriously.]

At the same time, institutional pressure to brake the ICBM is also in progress.

The government has designated 15 items necessary for the development and production of solid-propelled missiles but difficult to produce in North Korea as new "solid-propelled missile surveillance items."

In response to North Korea's dispatch of troops to Russia and ICBM provocations, the South Korean government is showing off its security posture on the Korean Peninsula, while raising pressure from all directions by curbing North Korea's import of weapons parts.

I'm YTN's Cho Yong Sung.

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