North Korea said that its recent missile tests were tactical Nuclear drills overseen by Kim Jong-un and comes as a response to US-led drills in the region.

North Korea said that its recent missile tests were tactical nuclear drills overseen by Kim Jong-un and comes as a response to U. S. Led drills in the region. North Korean state media, the KCNA released two pictures of Kim Jong-un overseeing the test and said that Pyongyang decided to organize the military drills under the simulation of an actual war. State media said that North Korean army units were involved in the operation that went on from 25 September to 9 October. The aim of the operation was to check and assess the war deterrent along with the nuclear counterattack capability of the country.

 Pyongyang says that it's demonstrated the effectiveness of its nuclear combat forces and that it stands ready to hit and destroy targets from any location. But what's more concerning here is not a statement, and I'm quoting here that even though the enemy continues to talk about dialogue in negotiations we do not have anything to talk about, nor do we feel the need to do so. He's also made developing small nukes a top priority at a key party congress in January last year.

Last month, North Korea also revised its nuclear laws in recession a wide array of scenarios in which it could use the nukes. Kim has declared North Korea a reversible nuclear power effectively ending the possibility of denuclearization talks. Now the escalation in the Korean peninsula comes after the United States and South Korea he'll join my time exercises involving a US aircraft carrier on Friday. Prior to that, the naval forces of South Korea, Japan, and the United States also conducted joint drills here for more on this now we're being joined by Vishnu Prakash, New Delhi who is a former Indian diplomat. Thank you so much for joining us on this broadcast. What do you make of North Korea's tactical nuclear test and how do you see this impacting? Regional order.

Greetings. What we are seeing is that in the secret of a Riveting thriller which is the Korean peninsula the only difference is that the actors keep changing but the script remains the same and we see this happening getting enacted again and again and again. The position of his situation is very clear. North Korea is steadily making its nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction. They are refining them, they are making them more sophisticated. Whenever there are joint military exercises North Korea sees that as a danger and as a rehearsal for an attack on North Korea and they fire missiles. The US. And South Korea kind of condemn it. Japan condemned it more censors are imposed and it goes on and on and on. So that is where it is. Nothing more, nothing less.

All right. Nothing more, nothing less. That's what you say. So what would you say is the way forward? Are we likely to see heightened tensions or just these drills continuing going forward?

Whenever the Conservative government comes to power in South Korea, because the Conservative Party has a stance against North Korea, does not believe in cutting much slack to them, and is insistent on denuclearization, the tensions go up. The only way forward, in my view, is that there is to be some kind of an understanding with North Korea where they may agree, given the right incentives, to freeze their weapons of mass destruction program, but they are unlikely to roll back, and they will never give up their nuclear weapons. For them, it's an existential issue. And they know that if they give up the nuclear weapons, that will be the end of the North Korean regime. They will not give up nuclear weapons. They will go through the motions. They will go back and forth. But so long as there is a demand for complete nuclearization, I don't think we'll see much headway.