N Korea ‘resumes’ propaganda campaign

North Korea has denied any involvement in the mine blasts and threatened “indiscriminate” strikes against South Korean border units unless the broadcasts were halted immediately.

Tensions flared last week when South Korea blamed the North for land mine explosions that maimed two South Korean soldiers and resumed propaganda broadcasts in retaliation.

The warning follows Pyongyang’s earlier denial that it had planted land mines on the South Korean side of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that injured two South Korean soldiers recently.

A spokesman for the National Defense Commission (NDC) of North Korea said the Ulchi Freedom Guardian military exercise are intensified and the strongest military counteraction to be handled by the country.

State television in North Korea has been trying to present a message to the people that the country’s military is in a better position now to counter the perceived threat that is posed by the US and its allies.

While threatening military action was nothing new for the regime (Kim Jong Un told his troops they should be ready to fight a “sacred war” in the days leading up to the exercises in 2012, for example), the rhetoric coming out of Pyongang seems particularly ratcheted-up this time around.

North Korea has issued new nuclear threats to the US saying it will respond accordingly if Washington does not cancel military exercises with South Korea.

A US State Department official acknowledged the threats made by North Korea on Saturday, and reiterated that the military exercise were not intended to stoke tensions.

The annual Ulchi Freedom train, which the defence ministry stated would run via August 28, is essentially pc-simulated, however nonetheless includes 50,000 Korean and 3,000 US troopers.

A celebration of dancing, flag waving and fist-pumping formed part of North Korea‘s festivities to mark 70 years of freedom from Japanese colonial rule.

As a result of the armistice was by no means changed by a full peace treaty, the 2 Koreas technically stay at struggle. However, in 1992, North Korea declared to the global Atomic Energy Agency that it had two uranium mines and mills, one of which is Yongbyon, located in the southern city of Pyongsan, not far from South Korea.

North Korea now has its own time zone.

On the other hand, North Korea’s Army General Army General Pak Yong Sik said they will fight until the end of their lives if provoked.

In using clocks to make a political statement, North Korea may be borrowing a page from the Chinese Communist Party playbook.