North Korea said today that its artillery is on high alert and prepared to strike the U.S. with a nuclear attack according to ABC News.
"From this moment, the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army will be putting in combat duty posture No. 1 all field artillery units including long-range artillery strategic rocket units that will target all enemy objects in U.S. invasionary bases on its mainland, Hawaii and Guam," said a statement released by the Korean Central News Agency.
While North Korea has said this before and done nothing, this warning has to be taken seriously considering the tension between the U.S. and North Korea currently.
North Korea recently conducted an underground nuclear test Feb. 12 and also successfully tested a long-range rocket able to hit the U.S. back in December. The U.S. took notice of both events causing the U.N. to toughen sanctions against North Korea.
The relationship between China and North Korea has also been on the rocks lately, as China recently decided to vote in support of sanctions against the People's Republic of Korea according to CNN.
"(The statement) doesn't mean that they will conduct some sort of military attack right away," said Kim Yon Hyun, a professor of North Studies at Dong Guk University in Seol according to ABC News. "They are elevating the crisis situation with the harshest rhetoric as possible."
North Korea also put the country on "pre-war" status in 1993 after announcing they would be abandoning the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty according to CNN.
The U.S. and South Korea signed a military pact on Mar. 22, a move predicted by multiple media outlets to provoke North Korea according to ABC News.
"The U.S. should not forget that the Anderson Air Force Base on Guam, where the [American] B-52 takes off, and naval bases in Japan and Okinawa, where nuclear-powered submarines are launched, are within striking range of the DPRK's (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) precision strike means," said a state-run newscast that many believe to be a threat released by North Korea. "Now that the U.S. has started open nuclear blackmail and threats, the DPRK, too, will move to take corresponding military action."
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