North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ordered his frontline troops onto a war footing from Friday, as military tensions with South Korea soared following a rare exchange of artillery shells across their heavily fortified border.
South Korean forces are already on maximum alert after the North's military issued an ultimatum on Thursday for Seoul to switch off loudspeakers blasting propaganda over the border within 48 hours or face concerted military action.
An emergency meeting late Thursday of the North's powerful Central Military Commission (CMC) -- chaired by Kim Jong-Un -- endorsed the ultimatum and ratified plans for "a retaliatory strike and counterattack on the whole length of the front".
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