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AFP. 9 December 2001. US targeting North Korea for second war on terrorism: state media. SEOUL -- North Korea on Sunday accused the United States of marking out the Stalinist state as the target for a second US war against terrorism and said its people should be ready to "lay down their lives" for their country. Rodong Sinmun, the North's ruling communist party newspaper, also demanded Washington stop pressing Pyongyang to accept an outside inspection of its missile and nuclear development programs. "The US designation of the DPRK (North Korea) as the target of the post-Afghanistan war operation compels the Korean people to be in full combat preparedness to lay down their lives for the country," it said. The daily accused the United States of refusing to drop the North from a list of states sponsoring terrorism to "provoke a war" on the Korean peninsula. "The DPRK is not Afghanistan. The DPRK is ready for defense and attack," it warned. Since the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, the North's propaganda machine has stepped up anti-US rethoric, reflecting its harder stance against Washington. US President George W. Bush proposed new talks with the North in June to include cuts in its 1.2-million-strong armed forces. On November 26, Bush called on North Korea to permit foreign inspectors to verify that it is not producing weapons of mass destruction, and warned Pyongyang to halt foreign missile sales. But North Korea has rejected Washington's calls for dialogue and inspection. In a commentary on Saturday, the North's second official daily, Minju Joson, accused Washington of staging a "shameless smear campaign designed to invent a pretext for a war of aggression" against the North. "Choice is not a monopoly of the United States. The DPRK has the right to choose and is strong enough to exercise its right to the full," Minju said. The Korean peninsula is the world's last Cold War frontier with an uneasy truce in place since the Korean War of 1950-53. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
