North and South Korean Nuclear Breakthrough?

War on the Korean Peninsula: Why no one wants to go there again, despite the rhetoric TOKYO (AP) — As tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula, one thing remains certain: All sides have good reason to avoid an all-out war. The last one, six decades ago, killed an estimated 4 million people.

The Hermit Kingdom is talking tough again, only this time it's about the fight to feed its own people.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb’s worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb's worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea.

South Korea faces "final destruction" if Seoul and its allies continue to push for tougher UN resolutions against North Korea's nuclear programme, Pyongyang warned Tuesday. "We have never recognised the propagandist resolutions on sanctions by the UN Security Council," North Korean envoy Jon Yong Ryong told a session of the UN Conference on Disarmament.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un convened top security and foreign affairs officials and ordered them to take “substantial and high-profile important state measures,” state media said Sunday, fueling speculation that he plans to push forward with a threat to explode a nuclear device in defiance of the United Nations.

CLICK TO ENLARGENorth Korea's missile arsenal, its potential reach and payloads SEOUL

Tensions between North Korea and its enemies are worryingly high at the moment, with Kim Jong-un's government telling the world that the countries are "at war" last night.