Newser) – Last month, North Korea threatened to hit the US with a pre-emptive nuclear strike. (It even had a video of what it might look like.)
Today, Pyongyang managed to up the ante. The North Korean army warned that it had been given the green light to launch said strike against America, reports AFP and al-Jazeera. "The moment of explosion is approaching fast," said the military statement, adding that it could happen "today or tomorrow.....
North Korea is moving a medium-range missile to a site in the east of the country, a U.S. intelligence official said Thursday as tensions with the nuclear-armed state continued to escalate.
The official declined to say where the Musudan missile was headed, but the North has used a site near the Russian border on the coast for its missile tests in the past.
South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin told lawmakers Thursday that the missile had "considerable range" but not enough to hit the U.S. mainland, according to The Associated Press......
