A senior officer of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Thursday that his country would take "military countermeasures" against South Korea, the official news agency KCNA reported.
The notice, sent by the head of the DPRK's delegation to the north-south general-level military talks to his South Korean counterpart, was responding to a South Korean Defense Ministry message Wednesday asking the DPRK to stop trying to provoke the South.
"Its reply notice was nothing but an excuse" and the DPRK "would take prompt, corresponding military countermeasures from the already clarified principled stand of the KPA (Korean People's Army)," KCNA quoted the notice as saying.
However, the notice did not specify the "military countermeasures," just saying South Korea should take the responsibility for suspending dialogue and official contacts and banning border crossings.
On March 29, the DPRK threatened to cut off talks with South Korea over comments a South Korean military official made about a possible pre-emptive strike against the DPRK.
Relations between Pyongyang and Seoul had become more tense since South Korea's new president, Lee Myung-bak, pledged to review rapprochement projects pushed by his two predecessors.
Source: Xinhua
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