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SEOUL-[[[[[[[[[[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."(The South) can never be cleared of the responsibility for suspended dialogue and contact between North and South and for the implementation of a travel ban," it added.North Korea's military has threatened pre-emptive attacks for years in response to annual, joint U.S.-South Korean military drills it said were pushing the peninsula into war.Its actions over the past week, including a missile launch and expelling South Korean officials from a joint factory park north of heavily armed the border, are the most aggressive against the South in a decade.To read more go to :
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSSEO10091720080403
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