Morning Star.png Korea: DPRK Troop Ready for War Pyongyang requests UN Security Council Meeting Foreign Desk, The Morning Star, London, 22 August 2015 The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) placed its armed forces in a "quasi-state of war" yesterday following exchanges of artillery fire with the south. South Korea fired dozens of 155mm shells across the demilitarised zone (DMZ) between the two states on Thursday following a bombardment from the North in protest at cross-border broadcasts. A DPRK military source said that leader Kim Jong Un met with defence officials on Thursday night to approve war plans in case the incident erupted into full-scale conflict. Korean People's Army reconnaissance bureau director General Kim Yong Chol called an emergency briefing for foreign diplomats and military attaches in the capital Pyongyang. Mr Kim sought support for an ultimatum to South Korea to halt loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts across the DMZ, urging diplomats not to believe "baseless fabrications" that the DPRK attacked a loudspeaker on the southern side of the DMZ on Thursday. Some 2,000 civilians were evacuated from the nearby county town of Yeoncheon, Yeoncheon, yesterday. Seoul resumed the broadcasts on Monday after an 11-year lull, after blaming Pyongyang for the maiming of two soldiers by a landmine in the DMZ. In Beijing, North Korean Ambassador Ji Jae Ryong told reporters that South Korea's "psychological warfare" had "gone beyond the limits of tolerance." On Wednesday, UN ambassador Ja Song Nam asked the security council to call an urgent meeting over ongoing military exercises by the US and South Korea - which Pyongyang called a rehearsal for invasion - saying it had "unjustifiably ignored" similar previous requests. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-1423-Pyongyang-puts-its-troops-in-quasi -state-of-war#.Vdf3pfmqqko -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
