Warmongering and the Korean peninsula

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South Korea bares teeth as four F-15K fighter jets dropped 

eight MK-84 bombs on targets at a military field near the 

border with the North

With Kim Jong-Un spoiling for a conflagration in the Korean peninsula, NORTH Korea has threatened the US with "catastrophic consequences" after their allies South Korea bombed the North's border in a show of "overwhelming force" today. The South's action was in response to the missile launch over Japan.

The hermit state shifted blame onto the US after fighter jets from the South dropped bombs on targets at a military field near the border before threatening to "exterminate" Kim Jong-Un.

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Four 5-15K fighter jets dropped eight MK-84 bombs on targets at a military field near the border

North Korea launched a missile over Japan at around 6am local time this morning

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Kim Jong-Un fired a missile over Japan prompting the country's government to issue a major warning

North Korea accused the US of driving the Korean peninsula towards "an extreme level of explosion" and declared it will respond with "tough counter-measures" as tensions in the region mount.

Japanese residents were forced to hide underground after North Korea launched a missile over the country and into the Pacific Ocean at 6am local time - escalating nuclear fears to a new height.

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South Korea's Colonel Lee Kuk-no today warned: "If North Korea threatens the security of the South Korean people and the South Korea-US alliance with their nuclear weapons and missiles our air forces will exterminate the leadership of North Korea with our strong strike capabilities."

North Korea's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Han Tae Song, responded: "Now that the US has openly declared its hostile intention towards the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, by waging aggressive joint military exercises despite repeated warnings... my country has every reason to respond with tough counter-measures as an exercise of its right to self defence.

"The US should be wholly responsible for the catastrophic consequences it will entail."

President Moon Jae ordered the show of "overwhelming" force against Pyongyang as he admitted UN sanctions on North Korea are failing to keep the despot in line.

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe branded the launch as a 'most serious and grave' threat