Kim Jong-Un tells N. Koreans to prepare for 'All-Out' War - Now even China is spooked - Live Updates

The seriousness of the standoff was clear as Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, touring bases on the Yellow Sea, ordered his military to be ready to strike “at a moment’s notice”, according to Pyongyang Korean Central News Agency (KNCA).

[link to www.independent.co.uk]


“An extremely dangerous situation is prevailing on the Korean Peninsula where a nuclear war may break out right now,” the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, North Korea’s propaganda arm, said in a KCNA statement.

Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, yesterday said that if North Korea conducts another nuclear test, the Security Council would “take further significant measures.”

A hint of official Chinese frustration toward the regime headed by 30-year-old Kim emerged in a Feb. 27 opinion article in the Financial Times by Deng Yuwen, deputy editor of Study Times, the journal of the Central Party School of China’s Communist Party.

“China should consider abandoning North Korea,” Deng wrote. A nuclear-armed North Korea might put China on the losing side of any confrontation on the Korean peninsula, and North Korea’s ruling elite simply won’t let the regime reform, he added.

The Chinese are also clearly worried that a nuclear-armed North Korea could provoke an incident that would send millions of people flooding across its 1400-kilometre border, according to Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York.

The resolution includes bans on equipment used to make chemical and nuclear weapons, front companies for the country’s weapons programs and importation of yachts, racing cars and jewelry for the regime’s elite. It also obliges UN member-states to stop any North Korean ships or planes suspected of carrying supplies for weapons programs.

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