From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [L-I] US threatens DPRK; gets response.
AP. 15 December 2001. North Korea Escalates Verbal Attacks on
Washington.
SEOUL -- Escalating renewed verbal attacks on the United States, North
Korea accused President Bush on Saturday of trying to stifle the
communist country and said it was ready to fight a war with the
Americans.
"If any enemy comes in attack on the Democratic People's Republic of
(North) Korea, its army will not allow him to go back alive," said
Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North's ruling Workers'
Party.
North Korea has increased its anti-U.S. rhetoric since Bush warned early
this month that Iraq and North Korea would be "held accountable" if they
developed weapons of mass destruction to carry out terrorism.
Saturday's commentary - carried by the North's official news agency,
KCNA, and monitored in Seoul - said U.S.-North Korea relations have
worsened to the "point of explosion."
North Korea should maintain "the highest degree of vigilance" against
the United States, it said.
In a separate article carried by KCNA, Minju Joson, another state-run
North Korean newspaper, accused the United States of trying to "spread
the 'anti-terror' war now under way in Afghanistan to any part of the
world."
The United States keeps 37,000 U.S. troops in South Korea under a mutual
defense treaty.
North Korea's 1.1-million-member military is the world's fifth largest.
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