North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is ready throw up to 500,000 women soldiers to the front line if war breaks out.

Battalions of female soldiers took part in the nation’s biggest-ever live firing exercise to mark 55th anniversary of its military’s creation this week, reports vesselnews.io.

‘There could be close to half a million women in the Korean People’s Army and Kim has told the forces they should be ready for war with South Korea.’

‘And the despot was mobbed by emotional female fighters when he watched the firing displays from multiple rocket launcher systems during the competition late last year.’

‘He organized this contest all of a sudden and guided it on the spot in order to estimate and confirm the combat capability of women gunners,’ said the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

In the contest, Kim stressed the significance of training women soldiers for the ‘great war for national unification’ and of preparing all gunners to be able to fight anywhere and any time, according to the KCNA.

‘To this end, the training of artillery units should be conducted under the simulated conditions of an actual battle,’ the KCNA quoted Kim as saying.

‘Exact figures on the number of women in uniform in North Korea are unknown.’

‘It could be as low as ten per cent but some reports from defectors suggest the figure could be as high as 40 per cent out the total of 1.2 million troops.’

‘One of the main reasons is that thousands of male soldiers starved to death or deserted their posts during the great famine which devastated the impoverished nation in the Nineties.’