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Nkorea chief vows punishment Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-PLS-PLS&id=12240345000222492&dt=20021224034500&w=RTR&coview= http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-PLS-PLS&id=12240345000222492&dt=20021224034500&w=RTR&coview= N.Korea defence chief vows to punish 'U.S. hawks' SEOUL, Dec 24 (Reuters) - North Korea's military will deal "merciless punishment" to the United States in the event of nuclear war, Pyongyang's Defence Minister Kim Il-chol said on Tuesday. Ratcheting up North Korea's often belligerent rhetoric amid tensions over the communist state's nuclear weapons programme, Kim said his army will "fight to the end against the imperialists and class enemies under the present serious situation. "The U.S. hawks are arrogant enough to groundlessly claim that the DPRK (North Korea) has pushed ahead with a "nuclear programme," bringing its hostile policy toward the DPRK to an extremely dangerous phase," the state-run Korean Central News Agency quoted Kim as saying. "If they, ignorant of their rival, dare provoke a nuclear war, the army and people of the DPRK led by Kim Jong-il, the invincible commander, will rise up to mete out determined and merciless punishment to the U.S. imperialist aggressors with the might of single-hearted unity more powerful than A-bomb," he said. North Korea, denounced by President George W. Bush as a member of an "axis of evil" with Iraq and Iran, has set alarm bells ringing by removing U.N. monitoring equipment at a nuclear reactor capable of yielding weapons-grade plutonium. © Copyright Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved. The information contained In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of Reuters Ltd. 12/24/2002 03:45 RTR

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