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Norks warn of attack ahead of S. Korea-U.S. naval drill
 SEOUL, June 29 (Yonhap) -- North Korea warned Tuesday it would attack "the stronghold of invaders" if the United States provoked a war in the process of a joint naval drill with South Korea, as tension persists on the Korean Peninsula over the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship.South Korea and the United States are planning joint naval exercises following Seoul's ongoing efforts to punish North Korea for the sinking through the U.N. Security Council. The Minju Chosun, the North's Cabinet newspaper, said in an editorial released through the official Korean Central News Agency that a joint South Korean-U.S. drill runs the risk of war. "It is a clear fact that even a small accidental event during the joint drill can lead to an armed conflict and a full-scale war," the paper said. "We will bring about a complete victory by uprooting the stronghold of invaders as well as dealing with them with merciless penalties" if the U.S. provokes another war on the peninsula, it said. It did not say what the "stronghold" referred to, but the North has threatened to turn Seoul into a "sea of fire" in the past. Past massive South Korean-U.S. drills have almost always prompted the North's 1.2 million troops to be on alert and are believed to heavily drain the impoverished communist country of its resources.
Posted by: Steve White 2010-06-29 |
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