Responding to revelations that Kim Jong Il’s photograph was being used for target practice by some South Korean military camps, North Korea has demanded that South Korea apologize and threatened revenge.
‘Uriminzokkiri,’ the propaganda website operated by North Korea’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland (NKCPRF), released a statement today in which it asserted, “The fact that we will soon take revenge for this reckless action against the leader of our sacred Republic is absolutely clear.”
It went on, “The South Chosun puppet conservative party’s anti-Republic confrontational clamoring has reached an extreme level that is no longer tolerable. The complete deterioration of inter-Korean relations was not enough for them, so now they have gone so far as to challenge the supreme leader of our Republic.”
“Those traitors should know that if they dare touch even a hair on the head of our Republic’s leaders, then there will be nowhere on these soils where they may live,” it concluded.
Also today, Rodong Shinmun, the publication of the Chosun Workers’ Party, quoted school principal Kang Joon Ho as saying, “Just as was strongly demanded in the statement by the Chosun People’s Army spokesman, those hooligans who insulted our Republic’s sacred leader must face unconditional and immediate punishment.”
In the same piece, Lee Jae Hyuk of the National Academy of Sciences was cited as saying that North Korea has modern tools of defense and an advanced missile system which cannot be avoided “anywhere on Earth”.
