North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered troops on the country’s heavily armed border with South Korea to be ready for war, one day after the two countries exchanged artillery fire in a spat over propaganda-spewing loudspeakers.
Speaking at an emergency meeting of his Central Military Commission, Kim ordered soldiers to enter a "fully armed state of war” beginning at 5 p.m. Friday, according to the country’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
On Thursday, North Korea fired a projectile at a South Korean loudspeaker that was broadcasting anti-Pyongyang messages over the border, a no-man’s land that has divided the two countries since 1953.