North Korea has boldy claimed more than 1.4million youngsters have joined the totalitarian dictatorship's army to take up arms against its "heinous" enemies in Washington and Seoul.
The unlikely assertion came just days after the Hermit Kingdom ruled by despotic Kim Jong-un rolled out mass military registration points across the country.
According to the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), students, farmers and factory workers had joined up and "pledged to mete out a merciless punishment to the enemies bringing the dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang over the land".
