Alert level raised

by Nial Maloney

After North Korea threatened military action after the nuclear test earlier this week, South Korea and the U.S. have both raised their alert levels. It was raised up to its second highest level earlier today for the first time since the last North Korean nuclear test in 2006. Defcon is still at stage 4 and reconnaissance operations into North Korea will increase.

On Monday and Tuesday, North Korea tested some nuclear short range missiles and on Wednesday threatened an attack after South Korea joined the U.S. in trying to stop trafficking of high powered weapons. Back in 2008, North Korea agreed to stop its nuclear weapons program but that deal has died down since and North Korea is now going to restart it's nuclear reactor.