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Will strike South, says North Korea
The North Korean army threatened on Friday to carry out a “merciless military strike” against South Korea next week, in a serious escalation of cross-border tensions.
The North Korean army threatened on Friday to carry out a “merciless military strike” against South Korea next week, in a serious escalation of cross-border tensions.
The Korean People’s Army (KPA) vowed to initiate the strike if a group of North Korean defectors now living in the South went ahead with plans to scatter propaganda leaflets next Monday from balloons floated over the border.
“The moment a minor movement for the scattering is captured... a merciless military strike by the Western Front will be put into practice without warning,” the KPA said in a statement carried on the official Korean Central News Agency.
Meanwhile, South Korea will strike back if it is attacked by North Korea, defence minister Kim Kwan-jin said here Friday, shortly after Pyongyang renewed threats of attacks.
Kim Jong-un a ‘dictator’: nephew
In an interview posted on YouTube, the teenage grandson of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has provided a glimpse into the secretive world of his country’s ruling dynasty.
During the interview conducted in Bosnia where he studies, Kim Han-Sol, nephew of current leader Kim Jong-Un, refers to his uncle as “a dictator” and speaks of his wish to “make things better” for the Korean people.
