29 March 2013/17 Jumada l-Ula 1434/09 Farvardin 1391/18 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

“He [Kim Jong-un] finally signed the plan on technical preparations of strategic rockets, ordering them to be on standby to fire so that they may strike any time the U.S. mainland, its military bases in the operational theaters in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Guam, and those in South Korea.”-announcement made in English by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency

U.S. B-2 bombers have joined aging B-52s in a demonstration of force against the Democratic People’s republic of Korea.  Kim Jong-un responded by putting on standby the DPRK’s Strategic Rocket Force.

On Thursday the B-2 bombers made attack runs with dummy bombs on the Jik Islet off Gunsan, after flying non-stop from continental United States.  North Korea put their rocket force on standby at 30 minutes after midnight Friday.

North Korean officials say the sudden and open demonstration by the U.S. of it’s B-2 bombers in South Korean war games is an intentional ramping up of tensions by the U.S.   This is apparently the first time B-2s were used in the joint war games in Republic of Korea.

In a confusing development, Korean media reporting that the DPRK’s General Bureau of Tourism recently told Chinese travel agencies “Don’t worry. There will be no war on the Korean Peninsula, so send as many tourists as possible.”