DPRK warns S.Korea of military retaliation for anti-north broadcasting

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday warned that it will launch a military strike on South Korea if the latter doesn't stop the current anti-north broadcasting and propaganda.

South Korea has resumed overall broadcasting for "anti-north psychological warfare" since Aug. 10 by deliberately linking the "mine explosion" in the demilitarized zone along the western sector of the military demarcation line with the DPRK and terming it "a provocation from the north," the DPRK Front Command of the Korean People's Army (KPA) said in an open warning notice released early Saturday.

The resumption of the broadcasting in the areas along the division front "is a wanton violation of the military agreement" between the north and the south, a grave military provocation against the DPRK and a serious case of pushing the inter-Korean relations to the worst phase, said the notice, quoted by the official KCNA news agency of the DPRK.

The resumption of the broadcasting is a direct action of declaring a war against the DPRK, and South Korea should immediately stop the ongoing broadcasting for "anti-north psychological warfare" and dismantle all stationary or mobile psychological means which have been installed or in the process of being set up, it warned.

Otherwise, the DPRK will stage "an all-out military action of justice" to blow up all means used by South Korea for psychological warfare in all areas along the front, and conduct "indiscriminate strikes" on the south, said the KPA. Endi