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Today's 'top stories' in the int'l media:

Seoul resumes psychological warfare with Pyongyang
North Korea 'on combat alert'

Already y'day Korea Times reported the following:

NK threatens to fire at loudspeakers 
 

North Korea threatened to fire at South Korean loudspeakers along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and destroy them, Monday, if Seoul resumes propaganda broadcasting...

"If South Korea installs new speakers for psychological warfare, we will directly aim at them and open fire to destroy them," an unnamed North Korean military commander said in a statement, carried by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency.

"If the South Korean traitors challenge our rightful response, we will counter with mightier physical strikes to eliminate the root cause of their provocation," the statement said...

Defense Minister Kim Tae-young said, along with other measures, the South would restart psychological operations against the communist North, including loud broadcasts of propaganda along the DMZ.

Kim warned of counter attacks if the North fires at the speakers: "If the North disrupts our psychological warfare by opening fire at loudspeakers, we will counterattack immediately,"...

 
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/05/116_66406.html

Meanwhile, North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity (NKIS) reported today, “On the 20th when the announcement of the results of the Cheonan incident investigation were revealed, Oh Keuk-ryul, the Vice-chairman of the National Defense Commission stated on the Third Broadcast, cable radio for North Korean residents, ‘Chairman Kim Jong Il has ordered the entire army, the People’s Safety Ministry, the National Security Agency, Worker and Peasant Red Guard and the Young Red Guard to move to a war footing.’” (source: DailyNK, 5.25)

Well, it seems that we're approaching f*cking "interesting times"!!

Related articles (just as examples):
☞ S Korea resumes border broadcasts (al-Jazeera, 5.25)
☞ Kim Jong-Il Orders Military to Prepare for Combat (Bloomberg, 5.25)