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North Korea uses live artillery in drills near border as Kim Jong Un continues threat
North Korea has carried out a drill using live artillery near its disputed border with the South, according to official media.
The exercise was personally supervised by leader Kim Jong Un, who has issued a series of inflammatory threats against South Korea and the U.S. in recent days.
The drill is the latest sign of worryingly high tensions between the neighbours after North Korea cancelled the ceasefire signed at the end of the Korean War.
The border where the exercise took place is seen as the most likely site of any clash between the North and the South.
North Korea has threatened a nuclear war with the U.S. after being enraged by new UN sanctions and military drills being held by South Korean and American troops.
Kim praised the artillery units on two islands after watching them hit targets in what state news agency KCNA described as the ‘biggest hotspots in the southwestern sector of the front’.
Over the past few days he has been reported telling troops to ‘cut the enemies’ windpipes’ and threatening ‘all-out war’.
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2013-03-14 08:49:19
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