North Korea threatens nuclear 'holy war'

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Editor’s Note: As many already have commented, would North Korea actually use the phrase “holy war?” It is an atheist state more or less, but consists of Buddhism and Confucianism. Other sites have posted this to say “sacred war.”

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POCHEON, South Korea — North Korea’s minister of armed forces said on Thursday its military was prepared to wage a “holy war” against the South using its nuclear deterrent after what he called Seoul’s attempt to initiate conflict.

Minister Kim Yong Chun repeated Pyongyang’s charge that the South had been preparing to start a war by conducting live-fire drills off the west coast, speaking at a rally to mark leader Kim Jong Il’s rise to the country’s top military post 19 years ago.

He was quoted by North Korea’s KCNA news agency which regularly threatens the South, but which had up to now been relatively restrained in its criticism of the military drills.

“To counter the enemy’s intentional drive to push the situation to the brink of war, our revolutionary forces are making preparations to begin a holy war at any moment necessary based on nuclear deterrent,” KCNA quoted Kim as telling the rally in Pyongyang.

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