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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s military warned Tuesday it would attack South Korea and turn it into “debris,” in Pyongyang’s latest response to what it says are confrontational activities by Seoul against the communist country.
The threat comes a day after military officers from the two Koreas held brief talks at the heavily fortified border, their second official contact since the North broke off inter-Korean relations in February.
The North threatened to cut off all ties if the “confrontational racket” continues, citing a South Korean general’s recent threats to launch a pre-emptive strike against its nuclear sites and the refusal of civic activists in the South to heed Pyongyang’s demands to cease distribution of propaganda leaflets critical of its leadership.
“The puppet authorities had better remember that the advanced pre-emptive strike of our own style will reduce everything opposed to the nation and reunification to debris, not just setting them on fire,” the North’s military said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
Relations between the two Koreas have been tense since South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s administration took office earlier this year pledging to get tough with Pyongyang.
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