North Korea conducted live-fire artillery drills on Tuesday, the 85th anniversary of the founding of its million-person strong Korean People's Army. And the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier is also headed towards the peninsula for a joint exercise with South Korea. On Tuesday, North Korea conducted what it called its largest ever combined live-fire drills, near the east coast port city of Wonsan. North Korea routinely accuses the United States of readying for an invasion, and threatens pre-emptive strikes to stop it. Tillerson will be "very vocal'' about nations enforcing sanctions on North Korea, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.

Source: Bangkok Post April 26, 2017 09:45 UTC