North korea ready for war

North Korea announced that its main nuclear site is fully operational on Tuesday, and that it is improving its nuclear weapons "in quality and quantity", according to state news agency KCNA. The propaganda arm of the North Korean regime also said that the country is ready to stand up to U.S. aggression in the region with nuclear weapons "at any time." The Yongbyon nuclear complex was closed in 2007 and North Korea had previously threatened to reopen it, particularly in 2013 after the country's third nuclear test. The director of North Korea's Atomic Energy Institute, unnamed in comments quoted by KCNA and reported by Sky News, said that its scientists had "made innovations day by day" in order to "guarantee the reliability of the nuclear deterrent...as required by the prevailing situation." "In the meantime, the U.S. anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK that forced it to have access to the nuclear weapons has remained utterly unchanged and instead it has become all the more … [Read more...] about North Korea Warns Main Nuclear Site is Fully

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has ordered his frontline troops to prepare for war after an exchange of fire with South Korea on Thursday, according to the country's state news agency. Kim declared what Pyongyang's official KCNA news agency on Friday called a "semi-state of war" at an emergency meeting of the Central Military Commission late Thursday. KCNA added that Kim had ordered the troops to be "fully ready for any military operations at any time" from 1700 local time (0830 GMT) Friday and be "fully battle ready to launch surprise operations." The battle-readiness order was issued after Seoul fired dozens of shells across the fortified border with North Korea in retaliation for the pariah state firing two rockets into South Korean territory, the South Korean Defense Ministry said. No casualties were reported in either incident. North Korea says it fired the rockets in retaliation for South Korea playing propaganda loudspeakers at the border, which it called a "direct … [Read more...] about North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un Orders Military to Ready

South Korea's decision this week to resume blaring propaganda messages at North Korea out of loudspeakers for the first time in more than a decade has sparked a series of events this week that have caused North Korean despot Kim Jong-un to order his frontline troops to be "fully ready for any military operations at any time" from 5 p.m. local time on Friday. South Korea started the broadcasts again after two South Korean soldiers were wounded by landmines planted by North Korean soldiers near their guard posts at the border earlier this month. The countries agreed in 2004 to cease using loudspeakers to broadcast propaganda at each other's border guards and local residents. Kim, the leader of the pariah state, also set a deadline for the South's booming broadcasts to conclude by 5 p.m. local time on Saturday or risk retaliation, describing the audio campaign as a "direct action of declaring a war." But why is the North Korean leader so angry with a series of oversized boomboxes … [Read more...] about Why North Korea and South Korea Are Feuding Over