North Korea threatens to reduce Seoul to ashes with 'unusual methods'

North Korea's military yesterday made an extraordinary threat of "special actions" soon to turn parts of the South Korean capital to ashes, accusing Seoul's conservative government of defaming its leadership.

The North said its targets were "the Lee Myung-Bak group of traitors, the arch criminals, and the group of rat-like elements including conservative media destroying the mainstay of the fair public opinion".

It said the actions "will reduce all... to ashes in three or four minutes... by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style".

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Posted in: Bilateral Relations, North Korea, South Korea