North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened a top national security meeting to direct a plan of "immediate military action" in a dispute with the South over drone flights, state media reported Tuesday. "He set forth the direction of immediate military action and indicated important tasks to be fulfilled in the operation of the war deterrent and the exercise of the right to self-defence",

North Korea is preparing to blow up the roads connecting to South Korea following drone incursions that sparked intense backlash from the hermitic state.

The spokesperson said that "grave touch-and-go military tensions are prevailing on the Korean Peninsula" because of the South Korean drone launches. In a separate statement later Sunday, the spokesperson said that the entire South Korean territory "might turn into piles of ashes" following the North's powerful attack.