Kim To N. Korean Military: Be Ready To Use Nuclear Weapons At Any Time (reuters.com)

PolygamousRanchKid writes with this story from Reuters, excerpting: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his country to be ready to use its nuclear weapons at any time and to turn its military posture to "pre-emptive attack" mode in the face of growing threats from its enemies, state media said on Friday. The comments, carried by the North's official KCNA news agency, marked a further escalation of tension on the Korean peninsula after the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday imposed harsh new sanctions against the isolated state for its nuclear program. South Korea's defense ministry said on Thursday North Korea launched several projectiles off its coast into the sea up to 150 kilometers (90 miles) away, an apparent response to the U.N. sanctions. ... North Korea has previously threatened pre-emptive attacks on its enemies including South Korea, Japan and the United States. Military experts doubt it has yet developed the capability to fire a long-range missile with a miniaturized warhead to deliver a nuclear weapon as far as the United States. Says PolygamousRanchKid: "Oh, joy oh joy... I knew that 2016 was missing something: the threat of nuclear war!"

Comments

Re:Yawn

[Anonymous Coward]

Bullshit. You are a fake and a liar. I live in Seoul and there is tension and mass paranoia. We are all going to be nuked and it sucks.

Re:Is there a trend, here?

[DNS-and-BIND]

In fact, it is a breath of fresh air to see a diversity of opinion here. For too long Slashdot has been slave to SJWs and their divisive, hateful agendas. We can only have debates when there is a legitimate opposite opinion, and SJWs don't allow that kind of thinking.

Funny how you never protested when the off-topic, non-tech stories agreed with your point of view. The problem isn't that biased stories are being shown, is it? It's that these biased stories are biased in the wrong direction. By the way, how did you even get "right-wing" out of "North Korea is an insane Communist country"? It's not like that is even remotely controversial.