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The crackpot ruler believes his prowess as a gamer will help defeat his enemies in the West.

And as tensions increase between North and South Korea, he is turning to ever more bizarre methods to sharpen his military tactics.

The South is flexing its muscles after seizing a fishing boat that crossed a disputed maritime border today and ignored warnings to withdraw.

It has carried out live firing exercises using 155mm howitzers at Inje, on the dividing line between the two countries.

But, for their sworn enemy Kim Jong-Un, it is business as usual and that includes playing his favourite game, the 2011 hit Homefront.

The game is set in 2027 where American resistance fighters battle invaders from the Korean People's Army.

A North Korean source said: "Kim Jong-Un is a computer wizard and already has a stash of western games, including Homefront.

"He loves the idea of the Korean army taking over the US. To be able to play as them taking on the Americans has put a smile on his face."

But a former US diplomat who has monitored North Korea for more than a decade declared: "This might be his only chance of racking up any kind of victory against America."

The latest trouble in the region flared after North Korea fired two powerful missiles on Wednesday in defiance of a promise by the West to curb Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear arms ambitions.

The medium-range Rodong ballistic missiles were launched into the sea, both Japan and South Korea said.

The U.N. Security Council is hold closed-door meetings today to discuss a possible condemnation of North Korea's action.

North Korea refuses to recognise the so-called Northern Limit Line that has been the naval border since the end of the Korean civil war in 1953.

The two sides have been technically at war ever since, as the fighting ended with a mere truce, not a treaty.

One top-ranking official from the office of South Korea's Joint Chief's of Staff said: "If North Korea tries provocation with the excuse that we seized the vessel that crossed the line, we'll be sure to come back with punishment pretty decisively.”

North Korea threatened nuclear strikes against the South and the United States last year after the United Nations tightened sanctions against it for conducting its third nuclear test.

On Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama said North Korea's provocations would be met by a united response, after meeting South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a security summit in The Hague.

A South Korean navy ship was sunk four years ago near the area of the latest infringement. An international team of investigators said it was torpedoed by the North, but Pyongyang denies the charge.