N.Korea on Red Alert, Ready for War

Following the joint US and South Korea drills, North Korea has put its military on full combat alert and ready to blow out South Korea, the communist state said.

Last year in a similar exercise, Pyongyang threatened a South Korean passenger plane flying in its airspace during the war games. North Korea said Tuesday the drills are seen as a nuclear threat and rehearsal for invasion. War games involving 18,000 Americans ad 20,000 South Korean troops angered North Korea, increasing the tension in the Korean Peninsula. The drills coincided with the diplomatic efforts to pressure North Korea back to the negotiating panel. Since quitting the six-party talked in May 2009, North Korea is under pressure to return to the forum about disarmament-for-aid talks after the United Nation’s decision to ban North Korea over the nuclear test it conducted last year. The Korean Peninsula serves as a buffer zone between the North and South Korea where a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) cuts the peninsula in half. After the cease fire in 1953, which ended the three-year conflict between the two Koreans made the Demilitarized Zone, one of the world’s most heavily armed region.