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Last Friday's top headline in Korea Times (online edition):

US Ready to Intercept NK Missile

And only one day later Korea Herald reported following:

The commander of U.S. forces in Asia and the Pacific said that the U.S. military is

prepared to shoot down any North Korean ballistic missile if President Barack

Obama should give the order.
   "If a missile leaves the launch pad we'll be prepared to respond upon direction of

the president," Adm. Timothy Keating said in an interview with ABC News.
"Should it look like it's not a satellite launch -- that it's something other than a

satellite launch -- we'll be ready to respond," he said.
   Keating, who commands forces that include 28,000 troops in South Korea and

50,000 in Japan, said that the military is ready to respond with at least five

different systems: destroyer, Aegis cruiser, radar, space-based system and

ground-based interceptor. All of these work in conjunction with one another to

protect against any missile threat...

But, no problem for Pyeongyang! Because (as Yonhap headlined today) N. Korea says:

We're ready for war..(!!)

Related:
☞ Pyongyang plays the puppet master  (Asia Times, 2.28)

PS:
And - of course - the relationship between Pyeongyang and Seoul is still dominated by "misconceptions"(^^), as you can read in the following lines:

''What protects North Korea are not nuclear weapons and missiles, but

cooperation with the South and the international community," LeeMB said on Sunday in a speech marking the 90th anniversary of the '3.1 Movement for Independence (from the Japanese colonial rule)'. "The door to unconditional dialogue remains open," he said. "The South and North should hold a dialogue at an early date."

However only one day later Pyeongyang, via the 'Committee for the Peaceful(^^) Reunification of Korea'(CPRK), immediately replied with a clear:

"FUCK YOU!"(^^OWTTE)

In CPRK's words: "Lee should refrain from resorting to such foolish tricks any longer and step down from power at an early date..! It will be the only way for normalizing the inter-Korean relations."

Related articles:
☞ North Korea warned of missile fall-out (Asia Times, 3.03)