- published: 25 Dec 2013
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Kim Jong-Un to North Korean army to ready for Combat - "War could break out any time" For more Latest and Breaking News Headlines SUBSCRIBE to https://www.youtube.com/user/24X7BreakingNEWS Kim Jong-Un has warned war could break out "without any prior notice" amid heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has warned war could break out "without any prior notice" and urged his military to bolster its combat readiness, state media reported. The call on Wednesday comes one day after a US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University report said that satellite imagery suggested that the North might have begun producing fuel rods for its recently restarted nuclear reactor. There has been heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula following the execution of Kim's uncle and former mentor in an unusually public purge. Seoul and Washington have warned of possible provocative acts by the nuclear-armed North following the execution of Jang Song-Thaek, a senior leader who was also the uncle and former political mentor of the younger leader. Kim visited the Command of Large Combined Unit 526 on Christmas Eve, the North's official Korean Central News Agency said. "He instructed the unit to put utmost spurs on rounding off its combat readiness... always bearing in mind that a war breaks out without any prior notice," it said. The unit is based in the North's western port city of Nampo, according to the South's Yonhap news agency. 'Ominous' situation The Johns Hopkins University report said that satellite imagery had identified facilities at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre that might produce fuel for North Korea's recently restarted plutonium production reactor and the Experimental Light Water Reactor still under construction. "The identification of these facilities indicates a more wide-ranging, extensive effort by North Korea to modernise and restart the Yongbyon complex dating back to 2009 than previously understood," the report said. South Korean President Park Geun-Hye called for "watertight security readiness" during her trip on Tuesday to a frontline guard post, as she described the situation over the border as "ominous". "We should react sternly and mercilessly to any provocations by North Korea," she said. The reclusive state's propaganda mill has gone into overdrive in recent days, describing Jang as a traitor while extolling Kim's leadership. Tens of thousands of troops pledged loyalty to him in a mass rally on the death anniversary of his father last Tuesday. The Kim dynasty has ruled the impoverished but nuclear-armed state since 1948 with an iron fist and pervasive personality cult. TAGS abc breaking news, bbc, bbc football, bbc iplayer, bbc news, bbc news america, bbc persian, bbc sport, bbc weather, bbc world news, breaking celebrity news, breaking election news, breaking late news, breaking local news, breaking music news, breaking news, breaking news alerts, breaking news canada, breaking news headlines, breaking news in atlanta, breaking news in nigeria, breaking news india, breaking news pensacola florida, breaking news plane crash, breaking news story, breaking sports news, business expensive news home media world, christian world news, cnn, cnn breaking news, cnn money, cnn news, cnn news breaking news, cnn news world, detroit breaking news, global news, headline, headline news, health care technology news, hot latest global news, internet technology news, las vegas breaking news, latest breaking news, latest celebrity news, latest information technology news, latest music news, latest news, latest news headlines, latest news update, latest sports news, live breaking news, local breaking news, local news today, msn breaking news, nbc breaking news, nbc world news, news of the world, news report us world, news today news, news updated daily, solar technology news, sports news today, technology news, the latest news, today news, us news and world, us news and world report, us news and world report magazine, us news and world report web site, us news world report, world news, world news daily, world news headlines