North Korea has sparked fears of a global conflict by holding a mock attack on aircraft carriers.  This practice battle comes as tension continues to rise in the region amid an ever-tightening spiral of threat and counter-threat.  Kim Jong-un’s army conducted the exercise after Donald Trump sent a message to the pot-bellied despot by sending a US strike force to the

peninsula.  North Korean propaganda newspaper reported a successful drill that they said would send alarm bells ringing in Seoul, Washington, and Tokyo.  One propaganda rag quoted one of Kim’s air force commanders, who said the drill was “an important test [for] the destruction in a single blow”.  In late April North Korea held another military drill including 400 guns. READ MORE