N. Korea threatens retaliation
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March 22, 2011, Tuesday
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NORTH Korea warned South Korea it may retaliate after accusing US soldiers of conducting reconnaissance near the tense border and taking photos with women and drinking there.
South Korea's Defense Ministry and the American-led UN Command - which oversees an armistice that ended the Korean War in the 1950s - dismissed the accusations as groundless. They were "not true" and North Korea made similar accusations in the past, UN Command spokesman Kim Yong-kyu said.
The UN Command has jurisdiction over the demilitarized zone and command troops have only patrolled along the Korean demilitarized zone, Kim and South Korean Defense Ministry officials said.
North Korea conveyed the warning to South Korea on Sunday, accusing Seoul of permitting "US imperialist aggressor troops" to come within 20 meters of the border to monitor vehicle and personnel movements in North Korea, according to Korean Central News Agency.
A KCNA dispatch accused the US troops of bringing women to the area and taking photos together, drinking and hurling liquor bottles at North Korean guard posts.
"The North side warns that it will no longer tolerate the above-said grave military provocation" that could trigger unspecified retaliation and cost human casualties, the KCNA said.
The Korean War armistice has never been replaced with a peace treaty.
South Korea's Defense Ministry and the American-led UN Command - which oversees an armistice that ended the Korean War in the 1950s - dismissed the accusations as groundless. They were "not true" and North Korea made similar accusations in the past, UN Command spokesman Kim Yong-kyu said.
The UN Command has jurisdiction over the demilitarized zone and command troops have only patrolled along the Korean demilitarized zone, Kim and South Korean Defense Ministry officials said.
North Korea conveyed the warning to South Korea on Sunday, accusing Seoul of permitting "US imperialist aggressor troops" to come within 20 meters of the border to monitor vehicle and personnel movements in North Korea, according to Korean Central News Agency.
A KCNA dispatch accused the US troops of bringing women to the area and taking photos together, drinking and hurling liquor bottles at North Korean guard posts.
"The North side warns that it will no longer tolerate the above-said grave military provocation" that could trigger unspecified retaliation and cost human casualties, the KCNA said.
The Korean War armistice has never been replaced with a peace treaty.
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