FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the training base of the special operations armed force of North Korea's army at an undisclosed location in North Korea, September 11, 2024 in this photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency. KCNA via REUTERS/File Photo
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean state media said on Wednesday around 1.4 million young people had applied to join or return to the army this week, blaming Seoul for a provocative drone incursion that had brought the "tense situation to the brink of war".
The fiery rhetoric comes after North Korea last week accused Seoul of sending drones over Pyongyang that scattered a "huge number" of anti-North leaflets. It then blew up inter-Korean roads and rail lines on its side of the border on Tuesday, and warned that the South would "pay a dear price".
