The leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un asked the country’s military to step up its training in order to prevent and respond to “real war”if this is deemed necessary, during a missile launch exercise he attended with his daughter.

North Korea should “increase various real war simulation exercises (…) in different situations,” Kim said, as reported by the KCNA news agency today.

Besides, the North Korean leaderwho oversaw new military high schools, asked soldiers to prepare “for two strategic missions: first to prevent war and second to take the initiative in war.”

Images broadcast today by KCNA showed the simultaneous launch six missiles of the Hwasong unit, which is trained for “strike missions,” the agency said, adding that the unit “launched a powerful barrage of missiles” and demonstrated its ability to “deal with a real war in the waters of the West Korean Sea.”

Yesterday Thursday the South Korean army he announced that it observed the launch of a short-range ballistic missile into the sea off the west coast of North Korea. The rocket was launched from the city of Nabo, south of Pyongyang.

From the Monday, March 13 South Korea and the US will hold the largest joint military high school in 5 years.

Besides, today the South Korean president Yoon Suk Gel said his country would increase joint military academies with the US in a speech to graduates of the Naval Academy, stressing that the situation on the Korean peninsula is “more serious than ever”.

Earlier this week the sister of Kim Jong Un had accused the US of “deliberately” stoking tension between the two Koreas and warned that Pyongyang would consider any interception of its missiles by Washington a “declaration of war”.

At today’s military high schools Kim appeared accompanied by Zhu Ae’s daughter, which is considered by some analysts, his successor.