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South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo news reports that North Korean jets are bombing targets that appear to be life-sized renderings of South Korean F-15K Slam Eagle fighter jets.

North Korea has carried out live-fire drills by bombing replicas of South Korea’s F-15K fighter jets, surface-to-air missiles and a radar. The drills took place at a shooting range near Sondok Airport in South Hamgyong Province. The F-15K is the South Korean Air Force’s main fighter jet.

Until recently, the regime had practiced dropping bombs on the bare ground at this shooting range, but it has now started to practice firing at replicas of South Korea’s main fighter jets and missiles.

This suggests that the North is drastically increasing its conventional capabilities behind the scenes while ostensibly concentrating on nukes and missiles. “We’ve confirmed that the North built what looks like a South Korean air base at a shooting range near Sondok Airport, an AN-2 base, in South Hamgyong Province,” a government official here said Wednesday. “Among others, they’ve made a full-size dummy of the F-15K.”