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N.Korea makes new threats against SK gov`t, media outlets

N.Korea makes new threats against SK gov`t, media outlets

Posted April. 27, 2012 05:24,   

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North Korea made more threats against the South Korean government and media outlets Thursday via its propaganda organ.

In the article “Still Do Not Understand Our Will to Retaliate?” Uriminzokkiri, a pro-North propaganda website, criticized the South Korean government for labeling a recent warning by the North Korean military’s supreme command “psychological warfare” and “aimed at switching the situation.”

“Our revolutionary armed forces never say empty words. It is a miscalculation if (the South) thinks that (retaliation) will be on the same level as the artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island,” the website said.

The website also made more military threats against Seoul through articles contributed by officials of North Korean organizations dealing with South Korean affairs, including the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, the Council for National Reconciliation and the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland.

Blaming South Korean President Lee Myung-bak for "ruining" inter-Korean relations, an official of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland claimed that the president`s comments on reunification were “ridiculous.” Another source at the Council for National Reconciliation said it would be “gratifying to see rat packs are killed instantly by a bolt from the blue without even making a sound," adding, "It is too late to regret now.” Other North Koreans including a military officer and a worker also contributed similar articles.

North Korea added the South Korean major daily Chosun Ilbo to its list of South Korean media outlets subject to retaliation, along with The Dong-A Ilbo, KBS, MBC and YTN.

Pyongyang’s state-run Korean Central News Agency in a commentary denounced the Chosun Ilbo and members of the NK Intellectuals’ Solidarity, a group of former North Korean defectors in the South, for claiming that a disturbance occurred at a public rally in North Korea. “It is clear that they have not come to their senses yet, as they continue to badmouth and slander (the North)," the commentary said.

The defectors` group had reported a disturbance at a Mass Games in Chongjin, North Hamkyong Province, on the centennial birthday of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung on April 15, killing six and injuring dozens of others. Chosun had reported the claim by quoting the group.

The (North) Korean Central News Agency said, “We have no mercy for those who touch our supreme dignity,” threatening to make the South Korean media outlets “wish they had not been born to this world.”



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