N Korea says prepare for war with S Korea

SEOUL: North Korea said Thursday it was “fully ready” for war with South Korea, stepping up its rhetoric just hours before US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was scheduled to arrive in Seoul.

“The Lee Myung-Bak group of traitors should never forget that the Korean People’s Army is fully ready for an all-out confrontation,” a spokesman for the army General Staff said.

The statement to the North’s official news agency was the latest in a series of increasingly strident threats against President Lee’s conservative government, which have raised cross-border tensions.

South Korean Defence Minister Lee Sang-Hee has said a limited naval clash may break out around the two countries’ disputed border in the Yellow Sea.

source : jang.com.pk

Clinton warns N Korea on nuclear programs

TOKYO: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived in Tokyo on her first trip abroad as President BarackObama’s chief diplomat with a warning to North Korea that it needs to live up to its commitments to dismantle its nuclear programs.

“The North Koreans have already agreed to dismantling,” she said. “We expect them to fulfill the obligations that they entered into.” During the now-stalled “six-party talks,” Pyongyang agreed to stop its weapons work in exchange for economic and other incentives.