Despite North Korea warning Friday that frontline troops were preparing for conflict and that military units had been placed in a “wartime state,” life in the North Korean capital is continuing as normal, one foreign resident based in the city told NK News.

State media outlet the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) reiterated warnings Friday that the peninsula was “inching close the brink of war,” due to what it described as “reckless provocations” made by South Korea.

But Norwegian film director Morten Traavik, currently in Pyongyang for a cultural exchange program, told NK News that despite the rhetoric, there was little sign of tension on the ground.

“The mood