North Korea Threatens Retaliation If There Provocation Relentlessly

Monday, November 29, 2010 00:26 pmNorth Korea on Sunday pledged to do "military counter-attack without mercy" if there is an intrusion into the waters.
The threat was made in the U.S. and South Korean naval exercise that began massive south of the border.
The promise of Judgement is published by the ruling communist party newspaper Rodong Sinmun five days after North Korea bombed a South Korean island border, killing two civilians and two marines, and set fire to several homes.
North Korea said it opened fire last week after South Korea's bombs landed in the waters around the Yellow Sea border dispute that tense.
"DPRK (North Korea) will conduct a merciless military counteroffensive of action provocative intrusion into the waters in the future," said the official news agency quoted the newspaper.
North Korea rejected North Border Line (NLL) made by United Nations forces after the war from 1950 to 1953 and stressed that it should lead the line further south. The area was hit by deadly sea clash in 1999, 2002 and November last.
The newspaper said the South Korean provocation is part of an effort to defend the northern border by continuing to let their warships into the territorial waters of the DPRK on the pretext of attacking a fishing boat.
Tensions rose after the North Korean artillery attack killed four people on the island of Yeonpyeong, wounding 15 Marines and three civilians, and destroying 19 houses.
Although the major countries of the world condemning Pyongyang for the deadly incident, Beijing was once again silenced, as well as North Korea blamed for sinking a South Korean warship in March.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula increased sharply since South Korea and the U.S. accused North Korea Seoul mentorpedo warship, that killed 46 people.
North Korea has denied involvement in the sinking of the ship and threatened to retaliate for what he calls South Korea's provocative war exercises conducted in response to the incident the ship.
The exercise, which involved 4500 troops, 29 ships and 50 fighter jets, is one of a series of planned exercises in recent months, some of which are conducted with the United States, an ally of Seoul, in a show of force against North Korea.
Cheonan South Korean warship sank on March 26 in the Yellow Sea near the disputed border with northern regions of the mysterious condition after the reported explosion.
UN Security Council condemned the South Korean vessel was sinking but not directly to blame North Korea, although U.S. and South Korea asked the UN condemnation of the communist state.
International Inquiry on May 20, announced their findings that indicate that a North Korean submarine fired a torpedo to sink the heavy South Korean warships that, in what is touted as the most serious act of aggression by Pyongyang since the Korean war 60 years ago.
South Korea announced a series of reprisals that included cutting trade with communist countries neighboring it.
North Korea has denied involvement in the incident and reply to South Korea's actions with the threats of war.
A North Korean diplomat said on June 3, the tension on the Korean peninsula after the sinking of the battleship South Korea is so high that "war may break out any moment."
In a statement at the International Conference on Disarmament, North Korea's deputy permanent envoy to the UN in Geneva, Ri-Gon Jang, blaming "bad situation" was in South Korea and the U.S..
"The situation of the Korean peninsula is currently so bad that the war could erupt at any time," he said.
The two Koreas had never reached a Peace treaty since the 1950-1953 war and only depend on a ceasefire Cold War era.


SOURCE : ANTARA