North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has met with the top military leaders and warned them of a grave situation and threatened a new nuclear test.
In a live-fire drill conducted on the disputed western boundary by North Korea, hundreds of shells reached South Korea, to which the South responded by firing 300 artillery shells into North Korean waters.
Kim Jong said that Pyongyang sees the US and South Korea's joint military drills as practice for invasion, The Washington Times reports.
He added that the US and other hostile forces are stepping up their manoeuvre to eliminate the republic politically, isolate it economically and crush it militarily.
He cleared that people of North Korea will not tolerate US hostility.
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