Minister Kim Yong Chun repeated Pyongyang's charge that the South had been preparing to start a war by conducting live-fire drills off the west coast, speaking at a rally to mark leader Kim Jong Il's rise to the country's top military post 19 years ago.
He was quoted by North Korea's KCNA news agency which regularly threatens the South, but which had up to now been relatively restrained in its criticism of the military drills.
"To counter the enemy's intentional drive to push the situation to the brink of war, our revolutionary forces are making preparations to begin a holy war at any moment necessary based on nuclear deterrent," KCNA quoted Kim as telling the rally in Pyongyang.
His remarks came shortly after South Korean fighter jets dropped bombs and tanks fired artillery in the South's largest air and ground firing drills of the year — a month after North Korea's deadly shelling of a front-line island. The thundering display of force came as President Lee Myung-bak visited with soldiers at a base near the border.
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when an aetheist nation is talking about
waging a holy war,
then one realizes what level of madness thingshave reduced to
Clinton had established relations with north korea, a somewhat form od detente, families across North and South were permitted visiting rights, and cultural exchanges were established but more importantly
the oil factor
recalling the US blocade of Japanese oil that led to the war,
Clinton took the intelligent move of attempting to assist North Korea in drilling it's own off shore resources,
but along came this idoit after him, you know the nut that said
"I am a War prsident, I make decisions with War on my mind"
and all of a sudden without any provocation from NK,
W called North Korea, an axis of evil and all that progess was destroyed and things have gone expoentialy down hill since then