North Korea has shown an “unusual increase” in military activity, carrying out inspections of its artillery’s readiness and conducting air force operations, said South Korea’s Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo.
“North Korea ... has been heightening military tensions through an unusual increase in the inspection activities for its combat readiness posture, mostly of its artillery, and in its air force planes’ flight operations,” he said, according to Yonhap.