The North Korean government has said it will attack Seoul
unless their government executes the South Korean officials it claims
are behind a plot to assassinate Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.
The regime issued an ultimatum on state television to the
South's president Park Geun-hye, saying that unless the unnamed
officials were killed, the North will shell the capital, which sits just
a few miles south of the border between the two states. The North is
also demanding president Park apologises for "high treason", and
threatened to hit the Cheong Wa Dae (Blue House) – her presidential
residence.
"The three-times-cursed traitor Park and her group should
make an official apology to all Koreans in the North, the South and
abroad for daring to commit high treason," a KRT news reader said.
Claiming that the attack order was "just a click away", the
message continued: "If unequalled traitor Park Geun-hye and her group do
not respond to the ultimatum of the Korean People's Army [KPA], the
long-range artillery force of the KPA units will take merciless military
action."
On Friday, North Korea carried out a military drill which it
claimed was a simulated attack on the Blue House. It also released CGI
footage of what is believed to be a nuclear strike on Washington DC in
response to the start of a joint exercise between the US and South
Korean militaries – which the North sees as preparations for invasion.
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has also been pictured inspecting
large military build-ups, though its government has been known to doctor
images released to the international press in the past.
The current crisis is unusual as it has caused Seoul to
cease contact between itself and Pyongyang, and place new sanctions on
its impoverished northern neighbour. The North has issued similar
threats to firebomb Soeul in previous years, but the closest it has come
to overt aggression is the sinking of a Southern navy warship called
the Cheonan in 2010 - an act it has since denied.
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