By DPA,
Seoul : North Korea Saturday said it would destroy loudspeakers spreading South Korean propaganda and threatened to turn the capital Seoul into a “sea of flame”, a media report said.
Earlier in the week, South Korea began readying loudspeakers at 11 sites along the demilitarised zone in response to the sinking of one of its warships that led to the death of 46 sailors, South’s Yonhap news agency said.
The General Staff of the North’s Korean People’s Army said it would carry out “an all-out military strike” to destroy the South’s means of psychological warfare, said a statement by the North’s Korean Central News Agency.
“It should bear in mind that the military retaliation of the DPRK (North Korea) is a merciless strike foreseeing even the turn of Seoul, the stronghold of the group of traitors, into a sea of flame,” it said.
South Korea said it plans to restart anti-Pyongyang broadcasts after the UN Security Council takes action over the ship’s sinking.
Seoul dropped the broadcasts in 2004 during a thaw in relations.
North Korea said it would destroy the speakers if the propaganda messages resume.
South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff said “no unusual activity” had been noticed so far along the demilitarised zone.
An international team of investigators said last month that they had found evidence that a North Korean torpedo destroyed the warship Cheonan March 26. Pyongyang denied the accusation.