North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspected a military unit that was responsible for bombarding a southern island, state media said on Friday ahead of a presidential election in the South. Pyongyang fired a barrage of 170 artillery shells onto Yeonpyeong island in November 2010, killing four people including two civilians in the first North Korean attack on a civilian area since the 1950-53 Korean War.
Two members of the South Korean military were killed, along with two 60-year-old constructions workers.
North Korea has a history of bombastic propaganda featuring unfounded claims.
North Korea held a large military parade in Pyongyang on April 15, but KCNA reported contacts between Kim and the South Korean agents as late as April 20.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry fired back that it had handled relations with Pyongyang from a "fair perspective", while Chinese media claims of North Korea's nuclear program as a violation of its mutual aid agreement with China showed the war of words between the two sides escalating to potentially risky levels.
"This is money that Kim Jong Un uses to advance his nuclear and missile program and also pay his generals, buying their loyalty to his brutal regime", he said.
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The bill also requires President Donald Trump's administration to determine within 90 days whether North Korea is a state sponsor of terrorism.
"North Korea does have a spy network among the Korea community in the US".
North Korea had pleaded for help from ASEAN to prevent what it called a "nuclear holocaust".
The statement said: "We will ferret out and mercilessly destroy to the last one the terrorists of the US CIA and the puppet Intelligence Services of South Korea". In an editorial the same day, the People's Daily sister publication Global Times called North Korea's nuclear program a violation of its friendship, cooperation, and mutual aid agreement with China, and seemingly called for that agreement's reconsideration.
China's foreign ministry has asked for all sides to exercise restraint and to avoid taking measures which could make the tense situation on the Korean Peninsula worse.
For the Central Intelligence Agency "assassination by use of biochemical substances including radioactive substance and nano poisonous substance is the best method that does not require access to the target, their lethal results will appear after six or twelve months", the Ministry said in a statement carried by state media. "China had better ponder over the grave consequences to be entailed by its reckless act of chopping down the pillar of the DPRK-China relations". KCNA printed personal commentaries criticizing China on April 21 and February 23. Previously it has couched such criticism by referring to China only as "a neighboring country".
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