N Korea warns US over village activities
Iran Press TV
Tue May 27, 2014 9:17AM GMT
North Korea has warned the Unites States that recent "provocative" activities in a truce village at the inter-Korean border could lead to "catastrophic" military clashes.
"The slightest accidental mistake or undesirable behavior could lead to a catastrophic military clash," said a North Korean military official in the frontier village of Panmunjom, where a ceasefire agreement was signed to end fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War.
According to the North Korean official, whose name was not mentioned in the reports, the US forces are using a newly constructed steel watchtower in the demilitarized village for "acts of espionage." He also accused the American troops of being engaged in other activities such as relaying messages across the border by loudspeaker and letters with "dishonest contents."
The UN Command, which supervises the implementation of truce terms, has dismissed Pyongyang's concerns, saying the watchtower was constructed for "ordinary monitoring purposes."
Pyongyang recently conducted a series of rocket and ballistic missile launches and threatened to carry out a new nuclear test.
The North's official KCNA news agency reported on April 2 that the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, had warned that the situation on the Korean Peninsula was "very grave" and vowed to "thoroughly crush" a US-engineered policy of hostility.
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