North Korea is threatening to detonate two more nuclear devices this year in order to force the United States to the negotiating Table.  Reuters reports its source has direct knowledge of the communiqué.

North Korea’s fourth and fifth nuclear devices are reportedly ready to go, and Pyongyang might accompany the tests with another rocket launch.  The fourth device is reportedly the biggest yet, equivalent to 10 megatons of TNT.  The regime wants the U.S. to sign an official agreement ending the Korean War of the earlier 1950s, which technically is still on.

The International Community strongly condemned North Korea’s third nuclear test earlier this week.  The U.S. called it a “threat” and a “provocation”.

North Korea "is not going to achieve anything in terms of the health, welfare, safety, future of its own people by these kinds of continued provocative actions,” according to the U.S. State Department.

The U.N. has international economic sanctions in place to try to stop North Korea from exploding nuclear weapons, but that apparently isn’t working too well.  Pyongyang is reportedly confident that agricultural reforms will allow it to ease its food dependency on its only ally China.  Millions of civilians are believed to have died because of a decade-long famine that started in 1995.