North Korea threatens Lee amid rising tensions
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April 24, 2012, Tuesday
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NORTH Korea promised yesterday to reduce South Korea's conservative government "to ashes" in less than four minutes.
The statement by North Korea's military, carried by state media, comes amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea's military vowed in its statement to begin "special actions" soon against the government and conservative media companies that would "reduce all the rat-like groups and the bases for provocations to ashes in three or four minutes, (or) in much shorter time, by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style."
North Korea regularly criticizes Seoul and just last week renewed its promise to wage a "sacred war," saying South Korean President Lee Myung-bak had insulted North Korea's April 15 celebrations of the birth centennial of national founder Kim Il Sung.
But yesterday's message, distributed by the state's Korean Central News Agency and attributed to the Korean People's Army's Supreme Command, was unusual in promising something soon and in describing a specific period of time.
Seoul expressed worry that the threats were hurting relations between the countries and increasing animosity.
"We urge North Korea to immediately stop this practice," Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-suk said. "We express deep concern that the North's threats and accusations have worsened inter-Korean ties and heightened tensions."
A Defense Ministry official said no special military movement had been observed in North Korea.
The statement by North Korea's military, carried by state media, comes amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea's military vowed in its statement to begin "special actions" soon against the government and conservative media companies that would "reduce all the rat-like groups and the bases for provocations to ashes in three or four minutes, (or) in much shorter time, by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style."
North Korea regularly criticizes Seoul and just last week renewed its promise to wage a "sacred war," saying South Korean President Lee Myung-bak had insulted North Korea's April 15 celebrations of the birth centennial of national founder Kim Il Sung.
But yesterday's message, distributed by the state's Korean Central News Agency and attributed to the Korean People's Army's Supreme Command, was unusual in promising something soon and in describing a specific period of time.
Seoul expressed worry that the threats were hurting relations between the countries and increasing animosity.
"We urge North Korea to immediately stop this practice," Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-suk said. "We express deep concern that the North's threats and accusations have worsened inter-Korean ties and heightened tensions."
A Defense Ministry official said no special military movement had been observed in North Korea.
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