Wednesday, June 10, 2009

N. KOREA'S NEW THREAT



North Korea yesterday raised the ante in its showdown with the rest of the world by threatening to launch nuclear weapons if provoked.

"Our nuclear deterrent will be a strong defensive means . . . as well as a merciless offensive means to deal a just retaliatory strike to those who touch the country's dignity and sovereignty even a bit," said the commentary, carried by the Korean Central News Agency.

Tensions in the region were already high as a result of North Korea's recent atomic test blast and the sentencing of two American journalists to 12 years of hard labor.

But a former North Korean official said the journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, won't be sent to a typical gulag because the hard-line regime doesn't want them to witness the brutality there.

ANDY SOLTIS, NY Post, 6/10/09

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