http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080403/wl_nm/korea_north_dc_4North Korea turns up heat on Cold war frontier
By Jon Herskovitz Thu Apr 3, 7:20 AM ET
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Thursday it was ready to give up dialogue and attack the South, ignoring a call from its wealthy neighbor's new president to calm down and get back to serious talks.
In the past week, the North has warned it could reduce its neighbor to ashes and hurled insults at President Lee Myung-bak, who took office in February with a pledge to end the free flow of aid unless Pyongyang's communist leaders behaved. And late on Thursday, it accused the South of raising tensions by sending three warships into its waters. South Korea's Defence Ministry denied the charge.
Earlier, Pyongyang sent a two-sentence letter from its military to the South warning of a strike, which was followed by a separate report in its KCNA news agency that the peninsula was on the brink of war.
"South Korea's military should clearly be aware that the position of our revolutionary military is to counter any attempt to carry out a pre-emptive attack with an advance pre-emptive attack," KCNA said.Jeez, can you imagine if a deranged imbecile like Bush had the unlimited powers Kim Jung Il has? :scared: