The global community watches with a growing level of unease as North Korea issued fresh threats on Thursday morning of nuclear war. North Korea threatened attacks on the USA and South Korea by a “smaller, lighter and diversified” nuclear force, warning, “the moment of explosion is approaching fast.”

These recent threats were made after North Korea barred South Koreans from entry into Kaesong industrial zone yesterday, before announcing their intention to restart a nuclear reactor that could produce plutonium for nuclear weapons.

North Korea’s news state agency, KCNA said during its latest broadcast:

The moment of explosion is approaching fast. No one can say a war will break out in Korea or not and whether it will break out today or tomorrow.

The responsibility for this grave situation entirely rests with the U.S. administration and military warmongers keen to encroach upon the DPRK’s sovereignty and bring down its dignified social system with brigandish logic.

Observers have said that North Korea is still years away from having the technology for nuclear warheads, but the country does have plenty of the conventional military firepower – medium range ballistic missiles, which carry high explosives for hundreds of miles.

Reports suggest that a mid-range Musudan missile has been moved to North Koreas East Coast. The exact reason for the move of the missile is unknown, whether it is for display to show force, or if it has been moved to the coast for firing purposes.

A South Korean government source said:

South Korean and U.S. intelligence authorities have obtained indications the North has moved an object that appears to be a mid-range missile to the east coast.

The Musudan missile has a range in excess of 3,000 kilometres placing, South Korea, Japan and united States territory of Guam in range.

[Source: CNN News, Huffington Post]