By Mark Stone, Asia Correspondent
North Korea has put its military on a 'battle-ready' status with strategic rocket units ordered to prepare for possible strikes against the US mainland, Hawaii and Guam according to the country's state media.
North Korea threatens a missile attack on Guam, Hawaii and the US mainland "The Korea People's Army top command declares that all artillery troops including strategic rocket units and long-range artillery units are to be placed under class-A combat readiness," the Korean Central News Agency said.
North Korea has previously threatened a nuclear attack on the US The announcement came as images were released showing a new round of military exercises by the isolated state.
The still photographs show what appears to be sea-borne assault using hovercraft and an artillery drill using multiple rocket launchers.
It's not thought to have the technology to hit the US with an atomic weapon North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, is pictured visiting troops and watching the exercise from a vantage point above the unidentified beach on the country's east coast.
The photographs, released by KCNA, are accompanied by language which matches weeks of rhetoric.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is photographed visiting troops According to the news agency, Kim Jong Un "stressed the need to destroy and wipe away any enemy who lands on their coast through strong firepower and ordered the soldiers of the heroic Korean People's Army to display their mettle in the great war against the enemies".
"Crazy like wild wolves threatened with fire, send all of them to the bottom of the sea," Kim is quoted as saying.
Rockets and long-range artillery have been ordered to be combat ready The exercise and the photographs of it are a clear response to a series of month long exercises taking place across the border in South Korea involving American and South Korean troops and naval forces.
It has been an uneasy few months on the Korean peninsula with rhetoric and threatening language at a level not seen for several years.
Order was issued in a statement from the North's military "supreme command" The increased tension comes as Seoul marks the third anniversary of the sinking of a South Korean warship. On March 26, 2010, the Cheonan was torpedoed by the North Korean military with the loss of 46 sailors.
In December, North Korea launched a satellite into orbit in the tip of a rocket. Their claim then was that this was all part of Pyongyang's legitimate right to pursue a space programme.
The fresh threat marks the latest fiery rhetoric from Pyongyang Few countries bought that claim, believing instead that it represented the latest move in North Korea's development of a ballistic missile programme.
The rocket launch was followed in February by an underground nuclear test and a sharp escalation in tension.
The warning follows joint military drills by the US and South Korean forces Faced with unprecedented UN sanctions, backed by his historical ally China, Kim Jong Un admitted that the rocket launch and nuclear test were indeed all part of his ideological desire to destroy America and her allies.
The annulment of the armistice agreement with South Korea and repeated threats to attack the South over the past three weeks have, so far, been exposed as nothing more than bluff and bluster.
US military bases in the Pacific are in range of its medium-range missiles However, with unattributed cyberattacks in Seoul, repositioned missile defence systems on America's west coast and the presence of US B-52 bombers in the skies above the Korean peninsula, there's no doubt minds across the region and beyond are very focused on a fragile peace and an unpredictable regime.
The South says it has seen no signs of an imminent military action More follows...
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