The state media reports spell out in unusual detail how the North envisions a potential war, including countering any attack by striking the South with nuclear weapons, then sweeping in to occupy its territory
that it said amounted to plans for a preemptive nuclear attack by the United States.
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Wednesday, August 30, South Korea’s military said, hours after theSouth Korea’s presidential office convened a security meeting after North Korea’s late-night launch, which followed its second failed attempt last week to put its first spy satellite into orbit.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday observed part of a drill that involved the commanding officers and staff sections of the entire army, aimed at preparing them for an all-out war with the South, KCNA reported.
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