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Urgent: DPRK top leader Kim Jong Un orders frontline army to enter state of war from 5pm Friday

Xinhua, August 21, 2015 Adjust font size:

The top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un has ordered the frontline combined forces to enter state of war from 5pm (0830 GMT) Friday, the official KCNA news agency reported Friday.

Kim made the order in an enlarged emergency meeting of the central military commission of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea. Endit