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'US scaring voters with submarines threat': N Korea
SEOUL: North Korea accused the United States of trying to influence voters in next month's presidential election by scaring them with reports of North Korean submarine incursions into South Korean waters. Earlier this month, South Korea launched exhaustive but fruitless search-and-destroy missions around its coast after what South Korean media reports said was a US military tip-off about two North Korean submarines. "We would like to clarify that this case itself is a fabrication and a far-fetched assertion to serve the purpose of the anti-DPRK scenario worked out by the US," the North's official KCNA news agency quoted a North Korean military spokesman as saying late on Saturday. DPRK is short for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. "Through this, the present ruling quarters in the US sought to hype up the fiction of possible provocation from the DPRK in a bid to influence American voters in the run-up to the presidential election there," the spokesman said. The spokesman said the submarine report had also been intended to dramatise North Korea's failure to return for a fourth round of scheduled talks in September on its nuclear programmes. reuters Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-25 |
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