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N.Korea threatens military strikes on S.Korea loudspeakers

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.

(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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