North Korea Ratcheting Up the Rhetoric
North Korea’s Minister of Armed Forces, Kim Yong-chun, says the North is prepared to wage a “holy war” against South Korea after what he called the South’s attempt to initiate conflict. The threat is a response to the South’s largest military exercises of the year ? conducted earlier this morning ? just 12 miles from the border with the North.
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