U.S. military members stationed in South Korea are on a heightened state of alert known as “enhanced status” amid flaring tensions on the peninsula and threats of war from Pyongyang.

Earlier Friday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared his front-line troops were in a “quasi-state of war” and ordered them to prepare for battle, after the most serious confrontation with South Korea in years.

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