Sunday, March 4, 2012

North Korea threatens South Korea with destruction over 'pre-emptive strike' comments

North Korea threatened South Korea with destruction Sunday after Seoul's top military officer said his country would consider attacking the communist nation if it tried to carry out a nuclear attack.

"Our military will not sit idle until warmongers launch a pre-emptive strike," an unidentified military commentator said in a statement carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency. "Everything will be in ashes, not just a sea of fire, once our advanced pre-emptive strike begins."

The Korean-language remarks, also carried on state television, marked the third-straight day of bellicose rhetoric from North Korea, which is angry …

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