SEOUL, June 12, (AFP) -North Korea said Saturday it would attack loudspeakers set up by Seoul to broadcast cross-border propaganda, as tensions flared over the sinking of a South Korean warship.
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| (FILES) South Korean soldier tear down a battery of propaganda loudspeakers along the border with North Korea in Paju on June 16, 2004. AFP |
The North's General Staff of the Korean People's Army made the threat in response to Seoul setting up the speakers at 11 locations along the tense border to resume anti-Pyongyang broadcasts suspended since 2004.
“The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK (North Korea) will launch an all-out military strike to blow up the group's means for the psychological warfare,” it said in a statement.
“It should bear in mind that the military retaliation of the DPRK is a merciless strike foreseeing even the turn of Seoul, the stronghold of the group of traitors, into a sea of flame,” it said.
Tensions are high after a multinational investigation said last month a submarine from the North torpedoed a 1,200-tonne corvette near the disputed sea border in the Yellow Sea, with Pyongyang angrily denying responsibility.
The installation of the loudspeakers amounted to “a direct declaration of a war” and a “flagrant violation” of the inter-Korean declaration for peace and reconciliation signed in 2000, the North's statement went on. |
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