DPRK leader Kim Jong Un on the night of March 29 signed an order to bring the missile forces in readiness to deliver a blow to the U.S. military bases in South Korea and in the Pacific. This is the official North Korean agency KCNA.
The signing took place at the disposal of the relevant operational emergency meeting, which was attended by representatives of the military leadership. Kim Jong Un was confident that in the current environment, «it is vremeya to get even with the U.S. imperialists,» and said that the enemy base «at one stroke will be turned into ashes.»
As noted by Reuters, the DPRK\’s actions were taken a few hours after the U.S. through joint exercises with South Korea has mobilized strategic bomber B-2 capable, including the delivery of nuclear weapons.
North Korea has previously stated its readiness to put a missile attack on the U.S. in case of provocation. The authorities claimed that, in addition to Guam and Hawaii, the attack can be carried out and the mainland United States.
DPRK relations with the U.S. and South Korea have deteriorated sharply after the February Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test, the answer to that became tough new sanctions from the international community. North Korea, in turn, came out of the armistice agreement with the South, which operated for 60 years, and the UN has warned that the peninsula is «on the brink of nuclear war.»