North Korea threatens to ‘turn Seoul into ashes’

North Korea has staged a live-fire military exercise involving a simulated strike on the residence of South Korean President Park Geun-hye two days after warning her of a “miserable end.”

“Artillery shells flew like lightning and intensely and fiercely struck targets simulating Cheong Wa Dae and rebel governing bodies in Seoul,” the North’s official KCNA news agency reported on Friday, referring to Park’s executive office, known as the Blue House in English.
The North Korean leader ordered and oversaw the drill, the largest-ever of its type, which involved “hundreds of different types” of long-range artillery and was staged to challenge the operation by “the gangster US and Park Geun-hye forces,” according to the KCNA report.