North Korea warns of war as Clinton heads for Seoul

North Korea said on Thursday it was ready for war with the South, just hours before U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was set to arrive in Seoul for talks on defusing the North’s military threat.

North Korea has repeatedly threatened in recent weeks to reduce the South to ashes. Pyongyang is thought to be readying its longest-range missile for launch in what analysts say is a bid to grab the new U.S. administration’s attention and pressure Seoul to ease up on its hard line.

“(The South Korean president‘s) group of traitors should never forget that the (North) Korean People’s Army is fully ready for an all-out confrontation,” the North’s KCNA news agency quoted an unnamed military official as saying.

Clinton said in Tokyo on Tuesday at the start of her first foreign trip since taking office that a North Korean missile launch would be “very unhelpful.”

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February 18, 2009 · Filed Under Uncategorized


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