North Korea claims its leader has put the military's rocket forces on standby to strike the United States. It is the latest threat from Pyongyang as tension continues to tighten on the Korean Peninsula.
South Korea's ministry of national defense says it cannot confirm a report of increased activity Friday among North Korea's mid-and-long range missile units. But it acknowledges intelligence officials of both South Korean and U.S. forces have increased monitoring of them. The semi-official Yonhap news agency in Seoul quotes a military source saying "sharply increased movements of vehicles and soldiers have been detected recently at North Korea's mid and long-range missile sites."
This follows an announcement from Pyongyang quoting leader Fat Boy Kim Jong Un that "the time has come to settle scores with the U.S. imperialists" and the country's missile units are now on standby.
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An announcer on Pyongyang Central Broadcasting Station says the country's supreme leader in a midnight emergency meeting ratified a firepower strike plan against the U.S. mainland, American bases in the Pacific -- including Hawaii and Guam -- and U.S. bases in South Korea.
The broadcast announcement said North Korea would attack should the United States "bring in enormous strategic armed forces and cause a reckless provocation." |